The existence of Wikipedia is a miracle
In the past two years, the meaning of the word "feelings" may have been mutated in the hearts of the Chinese people, which is mostly attributed to some business structure in the marketing process for the once good words of the hostage. But if the words "feelings" and "Wikipedia" are linked together, perhaps people will still be convinced to Chongyong to the right, to accept the spectator-style ridicule and irony, back to their hearts for the real sense of the call and awe.
Wikipedia, the world's largest non-profit-based website, has been around for 15 years with the development of the Internet. During this period, how many Internet-related companies or have become giants, or decline sadly collapsed, the vicissitudes of the change, and Wikipedia is increasingly becoming an integral part of the Internet is an indispensable existence. Borrowing the words I saw earlier: the existence of Wikipedia is a miracle in itself.
Why is it that the existence of Wikipedia is a miracle?
From. com to. Org. According to Alexa's latest data, the Wikipedia site (domain name www.wikipedia.org) is ranked 7th in the world on all sites, and its ranking in the United States is a bit higher, 6th place. In contrast, in Alexa's published data, the domain suffix of the other six sites before Wikipedia is. com, so that the. org suffix of the Wikipedia site is more maverick and meaningful.
But when the January 15, 2001 Wikipedia website came online and first met with the world, it was dragging a. com business domain name suffix. The reason is very simple, in fact, in the original plan of founder Jimmy Wales (Jimmy Wales), he intends to make money through Wikipedia.
Indeed, Wales has a great love for encyclopedias, he grew up watching his parents ' tagged encyclopedias, and he was interested in the booming open source software system at the graduate level. All this has contributed to Wales ' obsession with the concept of "free online encyclopedia anyone can edit" in the Internet wave of the beginning of this century.
But it is undeniable that Wales still has the intention to make money through it in the early days of Wikipedia: After all, although the online encyclopedia is free, there are more than 100 other ways in which Wales will be able to reap great riches, if he so wishes.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that Wales was also involved in the creation of a search engine called Bomis in 1996, prior to the founding of Wikipedia in 2001. One of the features of Bomis is that it has launched a "full range of nude women and pornstars Photos" of the blog-which, although Wales has been taboo, but it is undeniable that Wales with the money from Bomis to maintain the Wikipedia and its predecessor Nupedia operation.
Wikipedia, with its free and open character, has been greeted with great surprise. By the end of 2001, Wikipedia had more than 20,000 entries, and the language version had reached 18. However, in this fast-growing state, the domain name suffix is still. com's Wikipedia is in the future direction of the development of the divergence.
This divergence is based on the product attributes inherent in Wikipedia. From the perspective of platform construction, founder Wales conceived and built Wikipedia and provided an indispensable financial support for its development, but from the perspective of platform development, Wikipedia's content value is almost entirely from volunteers around the world.
So in the February 2002, when the Spanish Wikipedia users were concerned that "Wikipedia's Web page might be added to commercial advertising" and "Spanish users will gradually lose their language version of Wikipedia control" and re-create the so-called "free encyclopedia", The whole development of Wikipedia is in fact facing a very significant hurdle: whether to go commercial.
However, the concerns of Spanish Wikipedia users have spread to other non-English language versions, and Wikipedia volunteers from all over the world are worrying about and discussing the prospects and future of Wikipedia-a huge strain for Wales. Finally, in August 2002, Wales announced that he would not advertise on Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia would change the URL domain name of the site from "wikipedia.com" to "wikipedia.org" for. org.
In addition, in order to solve the problem, Wales announced on June 20, 2003 that the Wikimedia Foundation was set up on the Wikipedia project, and that the server, which was originally placed in Wales and Bomis, was also handed over to the Wikimedia Foundation for use. As a non-profit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation can donate money to sustain its own development.
As a concept of "wiki". I don't know what it was like when Wales made the big decision not to publish commercials on Wikipedia, even when we were speculating with malice, perhaps Wales would be very reluctant. But in any case, to stand today in the opposite view, Wales has made perhaps the wisest decision of his life. His name has been firmly engraved in the history of the wiki.
Wiki, or wiki, was originally a technical title. The word comes from the Hawaiian "Wee kee Wee Kee", which is pronounced in the same way as a wiki, meaning "hurry up". At the technical level, wikis refer to a hypertext system that allows everyone in a particular group to browse, create, modify, and manage the different versions of the system effectively, as well as keep all the changes recorded.
Wikipedia is built on wiki technology, but the Wikimedia Foundation is clearly not focusing on Wikipedia content. Perhaps in its view, more than just an encyclopedia, a variety of content, including dictionaries, books, and news, can be edited in a community by Wiki technology. And given the great success of Wikipedia in group co-editing and the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation is well funded by donations, the wiki seems to have detached itself from a technology name and become an operational model.
This model is characterized by: to build a platform for non-profit, through the power of the people to provide the corresponding content of the platform, and finally through the quality of content to raise funds to the public to maintain their own operations. Wikipedia is one of the best examples of this model, and the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects are an extension of the case.
From the sociological point of view, the "wiki" represents this model, in fact, from the entire human two groups, one through collaborative editing to contribute to the platform, one is to provide funds to support the normal operation of the platform through donations, and in the asymmetric cooperation between the two groups, The beneficiaries are the broadest of the entire human population. In a sense, this should be the most ideal and most sentimental way of content operation since the birth of the Internet, but on the real level, only Wikipedia has succeeded in doing so.
Of course, the influence of "wiki" is not only embodied in the Wikimedia Foundation, but the well-known "WikiLeaks" is the idea of inheriting Wikipedia's operating model. WikiLeaks also claims to be a non-profit organization, relying on users to provide some secret information, and on the other hand to maintain operations by raising funds externally. Although WikiLeaks ' reputation is largely attributed to its touch on the political sensitivities of countries around the world, it has to be admitted that the word "wiki" is also one of the most important reasons for its concern.
But in fact, WikiLeaks has no real connection with the Wikimedia Foundation. If it is hard to say that there is some kind of connection between the two, it can only be said that the concept of inheritance and carry forward.
In addition, Don Tapscott, a new economist named "The father of the digital economy", has also written a business book called "wiki Economics", based on the great influence of "wiki". The book once again emphasizes the tremendous energy of large-scale collaboration in the Internet era and the enormous commercial value that this energy brings.
Ironically, however, Wikipedia, which first practiced the idea of "wiki", did not embark on a commercial path, and its founder, Wales, did not get a huge fortune. Of course, he got the respect.
Summary
Now the development of Wikipedia has entered a more complex stage. And as its influence grows, Wikipedia's development has encountered many problems: editorial staff are reduced and gender imbalance, content has been maliciously tampered with or destroyed, the amount of donations is too large to be used effectively ... As an open and free encyclopedia, people have the right to question and criticize, which in turn reflects people's expectations of Wikipedia as a good thing. The so-called Love is deep, the responsibility of the cut.
It is gratifying to note, however, that under the term "Wikipedia", we can still see all the doubts and criticisms about itself clearly-which means that Wikipedia still has a free and open nature.
One more thing: when we enter wikipedia.com in the address bar of the browser and press ENTER, it still stubbornly jumps to wikipedia.org--, which is also a comforting symbol of beauty.
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