Quién no se lo ha preguntado alguna vez. Wikipedia, como lugar de información colaborativa que es, no cuenta con la verdad absoluta en lo que a datos y hechos se refiere. Su filosofía reside, precisamente, en que cualquier persona con los conocimientos suficientes aporte su pedazo de información a un determinado artículo. Ahora es Larry Sanger, confundador de la Wikipedia, el que afirma que la información del portal “no es fiable” y que “ha fracasado como proyecto”.
La política de neutralidad de Wikipedia vendida al mejor postor, según Sanger
Durante el día de ayer uno de los fundadores de Wikipedia hacía saltar las alarmas. Tras las declaraciones de Larry Sanger en una conferencia celebrada en Austria, el autor del portal de información más importante del mundo afirmaba lo siguiente:
“El principal obstáculo que nos hemos encontrado en Wikipedia ha sido el de mantener a raya a todos los malos actores para que no arruinasen el proyecto para el los usuarios del portal. Por desgracia, no hemos sido capaces de encontrar una solución para dicho problema.”
Posteriormente, Sanger sentenciaba lo siguiente:
“The problem in question is supposed to be solved through the web neutrality policy, but Wikipedia has decided to turn the other cheek for quite some time at the time when influential editors write articles with a point of view , discarding unpopular points of view that do not do justice to the truth or whose approach is alternative about the subject at hand. "
The Wikipedia co-founder has also added that one of the portal's problems has to do with the sources provided in the various articles on the platform.
According to Sanger, "there is no consensus about which source is considered reliable", so the approval of a certain article depends on the ideological bias of the administrator in question.
To this is added the rise of Fake News in several of the most important media in the world, which are used by many articles as main sources. Recall that in recent months the portal has been involved in several controversies about this type of article with sources based on Fake News.
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In any case, the aforementioned co-founder has stated that “Wikipedia is not a reliable place” , and that as a collaborative information project it has failed.
Via | The world