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Now listen to part of lecture on the topic you just read about.
現(xiàn)在來聽一段有關(guān)你剛剛所閱讀到的話題的演講。
The communal online encyclopedia will probably never be perfect, but that's a small price to pay for what it does offer.
公共的在線百科全書也許永遠不會完美，但是，我們只需要為它能提供的付一點點錢。
The criticisms in the reading are largely the result of prejudice against and ignorance about how far online encyclopedias have come.
閱讀文章里面的批評大部分是對在線百科全書的現(xiàn)狀有偏見和不了解的結(jié)果。
First, errors. It's hardly a fair criticism that encyclopedias online have errors.
首先，錯誤。在線百科全書有錯誤，這幾乎是一個不公平的批評。
Traditional encyclopedias have never been close to perfectly accurate,
傳統(tǒng)的百科全書從來沒有接近過完全準確，
if you are looking for a really comprehensive reference work without any mistakes, you are not going to find it, on or off line.
如果你在尋找一個一點錯誤都沒有的真正全方位的工具書，不管線上線下，你都找不到的。
The real point is that it's easy for errors in factual material to be corrected in an online encyclopedia.
真正的問題是，在線百科全書里的實際材料里面的錯誤改起來很容易。
But with the printed and bound encyclopedia, the errors remain for decades.
但是，印刷裝訂的百科全書里，錯誤保留了幾十年。
Second, hacking. Online encyclopedias have recognized the importance of protecting their articles from malicious hackers.
第二，黑客行為。在線百科全書已經(jīng)認識到防范惡意的黑客，保護他們文章的重要性。
One strategy they started using is to put the crucial facts in the articles that nobody disputes in a read-only format,
他們開始用的一個策略是，把文章中沒有人爭論的重要事實放在一個只讀格式里，
which is a format that no one can make changes to.
這個格式?jīng)]有人能對其做任何改變。
That way you are making sure that the crucial facts in the articles are reliable.
那樣你就能確保文章中的重要事實是可信的。
Another strategy that's being used is to have special editors
另一種在運用的策略是，有專門的編輯，
whose job is to monitor all changes made to the articles and eliminate those changes that are clearly malicious.
他們的工作是監(jiān)管所有對文章的改變并且去除那些明顯惡意的改變。
Third, what's worth knowing about?
第三，什么值得去了解？
The problem for traditional encyclopedias is that they have limited space, so they have to decide what's important and what's not.
傳統(tǒng)百科全書的問題是，他們的空間有限，所以他們必須決定什么是重要的什么不是。
And in practice, the judgments of the group of academics that make these decisions don't reflect the great range of interests that people really have.
而且事實上，做這些決定的學(xué)者們的判斷不能反映人們廣泛的真正興趣。
But space is definitely not an issue for online encyclopedias.
但是空間對在線百科全書來說就絕不是問題。
The academic articles are still represented in online encyclopedias,
學(xué)術(shù)文章仍然呈現(xiàn)在在線百科全書上，
but there can be a great variety of articles and topics that accurately reflect the great diversity of users' interests.
但是，它有大量的文章和話題準確反映用戶廣泛的興趣。
The diversity of use in topics that online encyclopedias offer is one of their strongest advantages.
在線百科全書提供的話題使用的多樣性是它們最強的優(yōu)點之一。
