BBC Learning English - Wikipedia 维基百科全书

　　Oliver: 就是说，所有的内容更改都会被放在一个专门的页面，会有专人负责检查。

　　Vicki: Monitoring it. These people are not people who are paid by Wikipedia but are volunteers.

　　Oliver: Volunteers 志愿者。

　　Vicki: Again, Jimmy talked about the community of Wikipedia. He called it a close-knit community.

　　Oliver: Close-knit 紧密的。

　　Vicki: So, these people maintain the quality of the pages.

　　Oliver: Maintain 维护 quality 质量。那么现在这部百科全书到底已经收集了多少信息呢？

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　　In terms of articles, it’s over one and a half million articles and constantly growing. We’re very thoroughly multilingual as well. We now have, I believe, 125 languages have at least 1,000 articles, which is exiting.

　　Vicki: There are over one and a half million articles!

　　Oliver: 有一百五十万篇文章，应该不全是英文的吧？

　　Vicki: No, Wikipedia is multilingual.

　　Oliver: 它有很多英语以外其它语言的文章，大概有 125 种语言，超过 1000 篇的文章。

　　Vicki: We asked Jimmy to tell us how good Wikipedia is, compared to a traditional encyclopedia, like a famous one, Encyclopedia Britannica.

　　Oliver: 他承认他的百科全书不总是比传统的好，但是在某些特定的区域却是这样的。

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　　There are areas where we do a much better job than Britannica and there are areas where Britannica does a much better job than we do. Anything current or contemporary, Britannica is a much slower process so they’re not gong to be up-to-date. We’re really strong in technology areas because we have so many techno-geeks like me who are really into Wikipedia.

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