維基百科即將挑戰谷歌:"知識引擎"項目獲得捐款
Wikipedia recently received a 250,000 dollars grant from the Knight Foundation for the first year of work on the "Knowledge Engine" project. According to the formAl agreement between Wikipedia's parent company Wikimedia, and the Knight Foundation — the purpose of the project is to build a search engine that can oppose Google.
因其第一年致力於"知識引擎"項目，維基百科最近收到了來自騎士基金會的25萬美元撥款。根據維基百科母公司危機媒體與騎士基金會的正式協議，這一項目的目的在於建立一個能夠與谷歌抗衡的搜索引擎。Initially, the grant was awarded in September 2015, but details were only made public this week. The total budget of the project to build what's being called "the world's first transparent search engine" is estimated at 2.5 million dollars; though only a fraction of that has been received to date.
最初，這筆款項是在2015年9月授予的，但是這周才向公衆公佈細節。這個建立所謂的"世界上最透明的搜索引擎"的項目，總預算預計是250萬美元；儘管到目前爲止只有一小部分資金到位。
The document lays out further rationale behind the project, stating the Knowledge Engine project is needed as a way to respond to online trends. In Wikipedia's case, this includes more searchers shifting to mobile, a drop in page views, and information pulled from Wikipedia being displayed directly in Google search results.
文件列出了此項目進一步實施的基本原理，聲明知識引擎項目作爲一種應對網絡趨勢的方式是有需求的。在維基百科的案例中，這包括：更多的搜索者將會轉向移動端、網頁瀏覽數的下降、而且由維基百科推送的消息將會直接呈現在在谷歌搜索的結果當中。
Also contained in the formal agreement is text explaining the company's desires to democratize search, and create a search engine that doesn't serve commercial interests.
正式協議中還包含了這樣一個主題：闡明瞭公司對民主化搜索的渴望，希望創造一個不提供商業利益的搜索引擎。"The project will pave the way for non-commercial information to be found and utilized by internet users… it will make the Internet's most relevant information more accessible and openly curated, and it will create an open data engine that's completely free of commercial interests."
"這個項目將會爲互聯網用戶發現和使用非商業信息鋪平道路。它將會使互聯網上最重大的信息更具可獲得性和公開策劃性，同時它將創造出一個完全免除商業利益的公開數據引擎。"This is not Wikipedia's first attempt at building a search engine. There was the Wikia Search project of 2009, which was abandoned after not attracting enough interested users. When the project failed, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stated he would one day return to search. Seven years it looks like he's willing to take on the challenge once more.
這並不是維基百科第一次意圖建立一個搜索引擎。2009年的維基搜索項目，因爲沒有吸引到足夠多感興趣的使用者而被迫放棄。維基百科創始人吉米·威爾士在計劃失敗時聲明，他將在某天重返搜索領域。7年後的今天，他似乎願意再一次直面這個挑戰。
