Reading 2 ------WANG HANPING

 1. Summary


The author gives examples of the idea of a personal encyclopedic device is frequently attributed to Vannevar Bush (1890–1974), an electrical engineer and advocate of America’s war research program. In a 1945 article entitled “As We May Think,” he famously outlined the idea for a memex , an “enlarged intimate supplement” to memory. This was envisioned as an electromechanical microfilm device “in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.” 


2. Interesting points


Furthermore, he proposed that the encyclopedia be in a single language (English) as it was difficult to otherwise conceive of a polyglot project satisfying his goal of social unity. Yet, it is also difficult to conceive how any such project could be genuinely universal when limited to a single language. In the case of Wikipedia, it began as an English language work and this version remains the largest, but there are now encyclopedias in other languages. While policy for the Wikimedia projects at large continues to be discussed on the English-language email lists and the “Meta” wiki, the different language communities are largely autonomous. 


I think language diversity is also important as a publicly editable knowledge-sharing platform.While a unified language can provide unified management of content, there are significant limitations to user editability.


3. Discussion points


As for Wikipedia in other languages, it is regrettable that they are not very rich in content and of much inferior quality to English.Most users have neither the ability nor the will to make him better, but Wikipedia should not be largely responsible.How can this situation be improved?

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