Resolución : Biografías de personas vivas

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Resoluciones Biografías de personas vivas ¿Comentarios?
Esta resolución que establece la posición de la fundación con respecto a las biografías de personas vivas fue aprobada en abril de 2009.

La Fundación Wikimedia aprovecha esta oportunidad para reiterar algunos principios básicos relacionados con nuestra visión, visión y valores compartidos. Uno de estos valores, común a todos nuestros proyectos, es un compromiso para mantener un punto de vista neutral.

Como parte de nuestros esfuerzos para ofrecer una fuente de conocimiento que es invaluable y útil para todos, tenemos la responsabilidad de mantener en alto estos valores al proveer también información exacta. Los participantes de los proyectos wikimedia han creado recursos de vasto tamaño y ámbito. Hemos enfatizado por varios años en que, además de la cantidad de conocimiento que está disponible, su calidad es también un elemento esencial. La calidad general de la información en los proyectos Wikimedia ha sido confirmada por varios estudios, pero es importante que siempre tendamos a mejorar. Al igual que cualquier otro intento de ofrecer material educacional e informativo, se deben evitar los errores, especialmente cuando estos tienen el potencial de causar daño. Una de las áreas en donde esto aplica es al escribir sobre personas vivas.

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:

  1. 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;
  2. Taking human dignity and respect for personal privacy into account when adding or removing information, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest;
  1. Investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report problems;
  2. 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.