網路真是一個很神奇的東西,可以拿來作奸犯科、荼毒人心,卻也可以有許多原本根本無法想像的妙用。
你能夠想像透過網路,許多熱心的知識份子已經一同編輯出一本包含有153472篇文章的英文免費(網路版)百科全書,且內容持續更新中!!
華人族群的知識份子常感嘆於國人現代知識的不普及,民風未開,不夠有教養. 是不是我們也應該向西方看齊,利用網路的力量,盡一個「讀書人」對追求文明(化)社會所該有的責任呢?
- Wikipedia : Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia. We started in January 2001 and are currently working on 153472 articles in the English version.
- Wiktionary : Welcome to Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus in every language, complete with meanings, etymologies and pronunciations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open content encyclopaedia Wikipedia. We started on December 12, 2002 and are already working on 4527 entries in the English version, with more being added and improved all the time. Anyone, including you, can edit any definition right now, without even having to log in.
- Wikibooks : Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project set up July 10, 2003 for the cooperative development of free, open content textbooks and supporting classroom texts. Right now there are 312 book modules ("pages") in about 20 books.
- Wikiquote : Welcome to Wikiquote, a sister project to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikibooks, begun on June 27, 2003 to create a free online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information. We have created 338 pages so far with thousands of quotations and proverbs.
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