Resolucions : Biografies de persones vives
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La Fundació Wikimedia aprofita l'oportunitat per a reiterar alguns dels principis bàsics compartits de la nostra visió, missió i valors. Un d'aquests valors, comú en tots els nostres projectes, és la voluntat de mantenir un punt de vista neutral.
En els nostre esforç per a oferir una font de coneixement que sigui valuosa i útil per a tothom, tenim la responsabilitat de reforçar aquests valors proveint informació acurada. Els participants dels projectes Wikimedia han creat recursos de gran envergadura i abast. Tal com hem emfatitzat durant anys, a més de la quantitat de coneixement disponible, també la seva qualitat és una qüestió essencial. L'alta qualitat general de la informació als projectes Wikimedia ha estat confirmada per un bon nombre d'estudis, però és important que mantinguem la lluita per fer-nos millors. Com en qualsevol altre projecte de proveir material informatiu i educatiu, cal evitar els errors, especialment quan existeix el potencial de causar perjudici. Una àrea on aquest cas es dóna és en la informació sobre persones vives.
Increasingly, Wikimedia articles are among the top search engine results for just about any query. That means that when a potential employer, a colleague, friend, neighbor or acquaintance looks for information about a person, they may find it at the Wikimedia sites. As the popularity of the Wikimedia projects grows, so does the editing community's responsibility to ensure articles about living people are neutrally-written, accurate and well-sourced.
As our popularity has grown, some issues have become more prominent:
- Many people create articles that are overly promotional in tone: about themselves, people they admire, or those they are paid to represent. These are not neutral, and have no place in our projects. Generally, the Wikimedia community protects the projects well against this common problem by deleting or improving hagiographies.
- People sometimes vandalize articles about living people. The Wikimedia community has developed tools and techniques for counteracting vandalism: in general they seem to work reasonably well.
- Some articles about living people contain small errors, are poorly-written or poorly-sourced. Articles about people who are only marginally well-known are often neglected, and tend to improve much more slowly over time, if at all.
- People sometimes make edits designed to smear others. This is difficult to identify and counteract, particularly if the malicious editor is persistent.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality, accurate information, by:
- Ensuring that projects in all languages that describe living people have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;
- Taking human dignity and respect for personal privacy into account when adding or removing information, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest;
- Investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report problems;
- Treating any person who has a complaint about how they are described in our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encouraging others to do the same.