爲打擊假新聞 維基百科創始人又推出了一個新項目

Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers.

維基百科的聯合創始人吉米·維爾士正在計劃打造一個結合職業記者和志願者的工作的新聞服務。

His goal is for Wikitribune to offer "factual and neutral" articles that help combat the problem of "fake news".

他的目標是讓Wikitribune網站提供“真實和中立”的文章，幫助打擊“假新聞”的問題。

The service is intended to be both ad-free and free-to-read, so will rely on supporters making regular donations.

該服務旨在既免費又免費閱讀，因此將依靠支持者定期捐款。

One expert said it had the potential to become a trusted site, but suggested its influence might be limited.

一位專家表示，它有可能成爲值得信任的網站，但認爲其影響力有限。

Wikitribune shares many of the features already found in Mr Wales's online encyclopaedia, including the need for writers to detail the source of each fact and a reliance on the public to edit articles to keep them accurate.

Wikitribune網站分享了維爾士先生在百科中已經發現的許多功能，包括撰寫者需要詳細說明每個事實的來源，以及依賴公衆編輯文章以保持準確性。

However, while anybody can make changes to a page, they will only go live if a staff member or trusted community volunteer approves them.

不過，雖然任何人都可以修改頁面，但只有在工作人員或值得信賴的社區志願者批准之後纔會生效。

The other big difference is that the core team of writers will be paid, although there may also be instances in which a volunteer writes the initial draft and then a staff member edits it.

另一個很大的區別是，核心作者團隊將會得到報酬，儘管有些情況是一些志願者寫初稿，然後由工作人員進行編輯。

Mr Wales explained that he believed the advertising-based model used by most of the media had led it to "chase clicks", which affected standards.

維爾士先生解釋稱，他認爲大多數媒體使用的基於廣告的模式已經導致了“追逐點擊”，因而影響了新聞標準。

"I think we're in a world right now where people are very concerned about making sure we have high quality fact-based information, so I think there will be demand for this," he told the BBC. "We're getting people to sign up as monthly supporters and the more monthly supporters we have the more journalists we can hire."

他向BBC透露：“我認爲在我們現在所處的世界中，人們非常關心並要求擁有高質量的、基於事實的信息，所以我認爲這將成爲需求。我們正在讓人們以每月的支持者的身份註冊，每月支持者越多，我們可以僱用的記者就更多。”