WikiQueer:Training/core/Principles

These guiding principles are key to how WikiQueer works. WikiQueer's Guiding principles:
 * We owe it to those that follow us to leave the world a better place than we found it
 * All people have a fundamental right to have their voices heard
 * Education is key to advancing equality
 * Efficiency and effectiveness can be measured in several ways
 * Advances achieved through compromise and incremental change are steps towards victory - not defeat
 * Diversity means more than tokenism
 * Being supportive of green and union practices is an affordable responsibility
 * Appropriate transparency is a responsibility of all nonprofits
 * Sometimes good things really do take time
 * Nonprofit programs that charge participants a fee must also provide a means for overcoming any financial barriers those fees may place on otherwise eligible participants
 * Corporations have a social responsibility to their community
 * Recognition of fundamental human rights including, but certainly not limited to:
 * Equal access to government for all residents
 * Queer equality
 * Sexual freedom
 * Equal access to life sustaining healthcare and education
 * The ability of almost anyone to edit (most) articles without registration
 * "Wiki process" as the final decision-making mechanism for all content
 * Creation of a welcoming and collegial editorial environment
 * Free licensing of content; in practice defined as public domain, GFDL, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY
 * We must use our technology skills for the greater good, including to help the broader LGBT movement with:
 * Use of emerging technologies
 * Development of open-source software with potential to be a catalyst
 * Creative use of wikis to address challenges
 * Development and publication of MediaWiki extensions and tools to transclude data from WikiQueer's Content Partners
 * Maintaining room for civilized debate to help resolve particularly difficult problems
 * Privacy of individual editors' non-public information is to be preserved where possible, with very limited exceptions
 * Content related to living people or active organizations has more stringent standards than most to better protect the subjects from risk of harm due to inappropriate quality or coverage