价值观

In a very wiki way, values only stay values while most agree with them.

维基媒体基金会的价值观

自由

维基媒体基金会的使命中的一个重要的部分是鼓励免费的教育资源的发展，这种教育资源可以被整个人类社区创建，使用，重用。我们认为，这项任务要求网络上兴盛开放格式和开放标准，以允许不被限制内容的创造物的创建，使用和重用。

At the creation level, we want to provide the editing community with freely-licensed tools for participation and collaboration. Our community should also have the freedom to fork thanks to freely available dumps.

The community will in turn create a body of knowledge which can be distributed freely throughout the world, viewable or playable by free software tools.

Accessibility and quality

All the legal freedom to modify or distribute educational content is useless if users cannot get access to it.

We try our best to give online access to high quality Wikimedia project content 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, as well as provide access to regularly updated, user-friendly, and free dumps of Wikimedia project content.

We try, through partnerships if necessary, to ensure the widest distribution, through DVD's, books, PDF's, or other non-internet based means.

To ensure world-wide, unrestricted, dissemination of knowledge, we do not enter into exclusive partnerships, with regards to access to our content or use of our trademarks.

独立

As a non-profit, we mostly depend on gifts to operate (donations, grants, sponsorship, etc.). It is very important to us to ensure our organization stays free of influence in the way it operates. For this reason, we strictly follow a donation policy, reserve the right to refuse donations which could generate constraints, and try to multiply the diversity of revenue sources.

Commitment to openness and diversity

Though US-based, the organization is international in its nature. Our board of trustees, staff members, and volunteers are involved without discrimination based on their religion, political beliefs, sexual preferences, nationalities, etc... Not only do we accept diversity, but we actually look forward to it.

Transparency

We must communicate Wikimedia Foundation information in a transparent, thorough and timely manner, to our communities and more generally, to the public.

Our communities are our biggest asset

We are a community-based organization. We must operate with a mix of staff members, and of volunteers, working together to achieve our mission.

We support community-led collaborative projects, and must respect the work and the ideas of our communities. We must listen and take into account our communities in any decisions taken to achieve our mission.

See also

• Mission
• August 2007 meeting of Board of Trustees and Advisory Board
• Wikimedia Foundation Guiding Principles (2013)
• 2017 iteration of Wikimedia Foundation values