Name: 他如何創立維基百科！ (How He Started Wikipedia!)
Uploaded: 2026-02-12T17:14:53.000Z
Duration: 3 min 44 s

過去簡單式

He's the guy who started Wikipedia and I am in his house.

他就是創辦維基百科的人，而我現在在他家。

I flew all the way to London just to meet Jimmy and understand.

我特地飛到倫敦來見吉米，想了解。

他為什麼要把維基百科做成免費的？

Why did he give away billions of dollars?

Since he was a kid, this Jimmy loved learning.

His mom bought him big physical encyclopedia books just to read them.

他媽媽買了厚重的實體百科全書給他看。

But no matter how big the book was, it always had missing information.

但書再大本，總會有漏掉的資訊。

Every year this book had to be updated with new information.

Twenty years later, the Internet was invented.

What if we could put all the world's knowledge on the Internet?

如果我們能把全世界的知識都放在網路上呢？

Back then, this was a revolutionary idea.

在當時，這可是個革命性的想法。

So wiki is from a Hawaiian word, wikiwiki, which means quick.

所以 wiki 是來自夏威夷語的 wikiwiki，意思是「快速」。

And we adapted that concept to say, let's make an encyclopedia.

我們也沿用了這個概念，想說來做一本百科全書。

The idea was to write articles, sell ads and use the money to pay editors and maybe make a bit of money.

他們的想法是撰寫文章、賣廣告，然後用這些錢來支付編輯的費用，也許還能賺一點錢。

But this is is where it gets interesting.

At some point he made the decision to make Wikipedia 100% free.

在某個時候，他決定讓維基百科 100% 免費。

No more ads, no monthly subscription, no revenue, no profit, just free knowledge.

沒有廣告，沒有月費，沒有營收，沒有利潤，只有免費知識。

Making Wikipedia free was the best decision of my life.

讓維基百科免費是我人生中最好的決定。

The minute he made it free editors from around the world came together to contribute and put all human knowledge in one web website.

在他讓維基百科免費的那一刻，來自世界各地的編輯們齊聚一堂，貢獻並將所有人類知識放在同一個網站上。

They fact checked each other and together they wrote more than 50 million articles in 300 languages, all for free.

他們互相查證事實，並一起用 300 種語言寫了超過 5000 萬篇文章，全部免費。

That's like 1 million of these books in a website.

這大概等於網站上有 100 萬本這樣的書。

If he charged $10 a month for Wikipedia, a kid in Mexico can't afford it.

如果他對維基百科每月收費 10 美元，墨西哥的小孩就負擔不起。

If he put ads, every article will have 20 companies trying to sell you something.

如果他放廣告，每篇文章都會有 20 家公司試圖賣東西給你。

Wikipedia is 100% funded by donations, largely small donations.

維基百科 100% 由捐款資助，大多是小額捐款。

Wikipedia became the sixth largest website in the world, worth billions of dollars.

維基百科成為全球第六大網站，價值數十億美元。

Jimmy could have been a billionaire, but he gave all of that away.

Jimmy 本來可以成為億萬富翁，但他把這一切都放棄了。

The number of bankers in this town who make far more money than I ever will is enormous.

鎮上銀行家們的數量非常龐大，他們的收入遠比我多得多。

And their lives must be incredibly boring.

而且他們的生活一定非常無聊。

I meet world leaders, I do whatever I like.

我會見世界領袖，做任何我想做的事。

Every single person watching this video has used Wikipedia.

每個看這支影片的人，都用過 Wikipedia。

From a kid in Malaysia to a retired soldier in Wisconsin.

從馬來西亞的小孩，到美國威斯康辛州的退伍軍人。

NAS Daily 之所以存在，全是因為 Wikipedia。

And the person that started all of this is just a simple guy living in London called Jimmy.

而這一切的開端，只是一個住在倫敦的普通人，叫做 Jimmy。

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