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Tin [Văn] cho không, biếu không.
[Mô phỏng
"Tình cho không biếu không']
Wales: Trùm
Văn Hóa Chùa.
Today Wales
is
celebrated as a champion of Internet-enabled egalitarianism. He
describes himself not as anti-elitist but as
"anticredentialist." That's a key distinction. It
means that
amateurs can have as much to contribute as professionals and that
talent
can be found
anywhere.
Wales không
coi mình là Trùm văn hóa chùa, culture-free, kẻ vô địch về
chủ nghĩa tem
phiếu nhờ Internet mà có được. Ông tự miêu tả mình, không phải một tay
bài, chống tinh thần tinh hoa,
sự tinh anh, nhưng một kẻ chẳng thèm để ý đến thành tích, theo kiểu
suy nghĩ, muốn làm gì thì cũng phải có tí vốn lận lưng! Đây là một phân
biệt quan trọng. Nó có nghĩa, những tay tài tử đóng góp chẳng thua gì
đám nhà nghề, và tài năng có
thể tìm thấy được, từ bất cứ xó xỉnh nào.
Wikipedia:
Bách Khoa Toàn Thư Nhanh [Wiki (the Hawaiian term
means quick)]
Tay dân chơi tài tử thật bảnh, kẻ sáng tạo ra Wikipedia.
Tin Văn 'của Gấu', một cách nào
đó, là theo tinh thần trên. Nhưng, khác hẳn Wikipedia, nó là một trang
'nhà', không có sự đóng góp của những người khác, trừ một số thân quen.
Ngoài ra, nó nhắm tới một nền tự do dân chủ 'chùa', cho đồng bào trong
nước. Thay vì chuyển lửa, thì chuyển tin văn - chôm chĩa được từ kho
tàng thế giới, nhân loại - về... 'nhà'.
Theo nghĩa đó,
nó cũng là một tên biệt kích văn hóa!
BY
CHRIS ANDERSON
•"Edit
this page." Just three little words, but what
a miracle they have wrought. Just about every entry on Wikipedia.org,
the online encyclopedia, invites
visitors to fiddle. Is the entry incomplete? Add something. Is it
wrong? Correct it. Is
it biased? Edit away. That such a remarkably open-door policy has
resulted in the biggest (and perhaps best) encyclopedia in the
world is a testament to the vision of one
man, Jimmy Wales.
Wales, 39, is a
former options trader who in 1999 set out to reinvent the encyclopedia
for the
Internet age- free, up-to-date and available to all. He started the way
most encyclopedists start,
by com missioning articles from experts and subjecting them to peer
review. After 18
months, he had a pitiful 12 entries; at that rate, it would take a few
millenniums to equal Encyclopaedia Britannica. So Wales created a
free-form companion site based on a little-known software program
called a
wiki (the Hawaiian term means quick) that makes it easy—
with the "edit this page" button—to
enter and track changes to Web pages.
The effect was
explosive. That simple button turned readers into contributors and
contributors into
evangelists. Wikipedia now has more than
a million articles in English, nearly 10
times as many as in Britannica. That number nearly doubles each year.
And most
extraordinarily, the site has not been defaced by vandals or hijacked
by zealots. Or more
precisely, it is vandalized every day but is usually repaired within
minutes by
any one of the millions of users who are motivated to protect and
nurture the
site.
Today Wales is
celebrated as a champion of Internet-enabled egalitarianism. He
describes himself not as anti-elitist but as
"anticredentialist." That's a key distinction. It means that
amateurs can have as much to contribute as professionals and that talent
can be
found
anywhere.
Everyone
predicted
that mob rule would lead to chaos. Instead it has led to what may prove
to be the most
powerful industrial model of the 21st
century: peer production.
Wikipedia
is proof
that it works, and Jimmy Wales is its prophet
*
Anderson
is the editor in chief of Wired magazine
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