WIKIPEDIA ASUME POR FIN EL CONTROL DEBIDO

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Wikipedia cambia reglas para subir contenidos
Fecha edición: 07-12-2005

Wikipedia, la enciclopedia en línea en la que cualquier usuario puede incluir artículos y comentarios, decidió endurecer sus normas para enviar documentos luego que un famoso periodista se quejara de que uno de los artículos lo implica falsamente en el asesinato del Presidente de EE.UU. John F. Kennedy. Desde ahora, Wikipedia exigirá que los usuarios se registren antes de que puedan crear documentos. El cambio se produce menos de una semana después de que John Seigenthaler, ex asistente de Robert Kennedy, se quejara en una editorial del diario USA Today de que su biografía en Wikipedia afirmaba de que había sido sospechoso en los asesinatos tanto de su jefe directo como de su hermano John F. Kennedy.

-EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTER

Wikipedia tightens online rules
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Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has tightened its submission rules
following a complaint. Prominent journalist John Seigenthaler described
as 'false and malicious' an entry on Wikipedia implicating him in the
Kennedy assassinations.
When he phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, he was told there was
no way of finding out who wrote the entry. Wikipedia has since removed
the entry and now requires users to register before they can create
articles. But visitors to the site will still be able to edit content
already posted without having to register.
The case has highlighted once again the problem of publishing
information online. Wales acknowledged that the new procedures would not
prevent people from posting false information but said he hoped it would
limit the number of new articles being created. This, in turn, should
make it easier for the 600 volunteers to edit content, he said.
In an opinion piece last week for the USA Today paper, where Seigenthaler
was the founding editorial director, the 78-year-old journalist claimed
that only one sentence in his Wikipedia biography was correct - the fact
that he was Robert Kennedy's administrative assistant in the early 1960s.
He went on to describe Wikipedia as a 'flawed and irresponsible research tool'.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4502846.stm - BBC News