Resolusi: Biografi tokoh yang masih hidup
 | This proposal has been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. It may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored by Wikimedia Foundation officers or staff nor local policies of any Wikimedia project. Harap ingat bahwa jika ada perbedaan dalam arti atau interpretasi antara versi bahasa Inggris asli dari pedoman ini dan terjemahannya, versi bahasa Inggris lah yang akan diutamakan. |
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| Resolusi yang menyatakan pandangan Wikimedia Foundation tentang Biografi Tokoh yang Masih Hidup ini disetujui pada April 2009. |
Pada kesempatan ini, Wikimedia Foundation bermaksud menekankan beberapa prinsip dasar yang terkait dengan visi, misi, dan nilai-nilai bersama kita. Salah satu di antara nilai-nilai yang sama di antara proyek-proyek kita adalah komitmen untuk memelihara sudut pandang netral.
Dalam upaya kita untuk menawarkan suatu sumber pengetahuan yang bernilai dan berguna bagi semua, kita memiliki tanggung jawab untuk menegakkan nilai-nilai tersebut dengan juga memberikan informasi yang akurat. Partisipan dalam proyek-proyek Wikimedia telah menciptakan sumber daya dengan ukuran dan lingkup yang besar. Seperti telah ditekankan selama beberapa tahun, sebagai tambahan dari kuantitas pengetahuan yang tersedia, kualitasnya pun merupakan suatu masalah yang esensial. Tingginya kualitas informasi di Wikimedia secara umum telah dibuktikan melalui sejumlah kajian, namun tetap penting untuk terus berjuang meningkatkannya. Sebagaimana halnya suatu upaya penyediaan bahan pendidikan dan informasi, kesalahan harus dihindari, terutama jika kesalahan tersebut memiliki potensi merusak. Salah satu wilayah yang mungkin memiliki potensi ini adalah pada tulisan mengenai tokoh yang masih hidup.
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.