维基百科即将挑战谷歌:"知识引擎"项目获得捐款

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.

因其第一年致力于"知识引擎"项目，维基百科最近收到了来自骑士基金会的25万美元拨款。根据维基百科母公司危机媒体与骑士基金会的正式协议，这一项目的目的在于建立一个能够与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，这笔款项是在2015年9月授予的，但是这周才向公众公布细节。这个建立所谓的"世界上最透明的搜索引擎"的项目，总预算预计是250万美元；尽管到目前为止只有一小部分资金到位。

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.

文件列出了此项目进一步实施的基本原理，声明知识引擎项目作为一种应对网络趋势的方式是有需求的。在维基百科的案例中，这包括：更多的搜索者将会转向移动端、网页浏览数的下降、而且由维基百科推送的消息将会直接呈现在在谷歌搜索的结果当中。

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.

正式协议中还包含了这样一个主题：阐明了公司对民主化搜索的渴望，希望创造一个不提供商业利益的搜索引擎。

"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."

"这个项目将会为互联网用户发现和使用非商业信息铺平道路。它将会使互联网上最重大的信息更具可获得性和公开策划性，同时它将创造出一个完全免除商业利益的公开数据引擎。"

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.

这并不是维基百科第一次意图建立一个搜索引擎。2009年的维基搜索项目，因为没有吸引到足够多感兴趣的使用者而被迫放弃。维基百科创始人吉米·威尔士在计划失败时声明，他将在某天重返搜索领域。7年后的今天，他似乎愿意再一次直面这个挑战。