AboutUsValues
OurWork/Mission Statement ... Values
Values for AboutUs
Below is a list of values that individual AboutUs team members feel are important. Please feel free to add more thoughts on what you think are important values for the AboutUs community to have. We will be adding more on a regular basis as we work through issues related to building an online wiki community. One of the main wiki values is to constantly build and not be worried about starting somewhere. See also WhoWeAre.
Fundamental Values
Work-In-Progress
Values
Wisdom of crowds
- Collaboration is good
- Everyone can participate, maximum value possible by seeing everyone's knowledge as valuable
- I know some things, we know all things
- The communal mind, connect humans to information based on all other human intuitions and perceptions instead of algorythms. The human mind is better at organizing things than a computer when it can do it en-masse.
- We all have room to grow - into what we don't know - yet
Community
- We celebrate the "other", the "Category:LongtailCategories". (Otherwise, why 2.0?)
- Active listening
- Empathy
- We are excited about why you are here
- Always exceeding expectations
- Real people ... accountability. Realnames any living people help build trust
- Building community
- The world is a small place are all linked. We'll show you how you are connected
- We connect people, we help people connect with businesses, organizations, user groups
- Organizing information and people
- People are good
- We serve moving readers to contributors
- Solving problems
Build the commons
- Build the commons, read, edit + reuse
- Ideas want to be free
- Add Value
- Be a builder
- Be constructive
Transparency
- Security through obscurity is not security
- Visibility is good, Full visibility for all actions, Transparency, nothing should be hidden from the community, hurts bad actors, helps good actors
Wiki
- Wiki is the easy button
- Wiki culture is better! Better than polarization, better signal to noise ratio
- Assume good faith
- Content over form
- Innovation
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