AboutUsValues

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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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