Chapter 652: Yixun Encyclopedia
Although this does not make money, its social impact is indeed huge. To put it in a broader sense, it is part of "cultural soft power" and the formulation of "discourse power."
Looking at what the Korean country did, Lu Yiming was actually very alert in his heart. Because it is difficult for the general public to access so-called professional and in-depth knowledge, and the encyclopedia has the name of "popular science", so it has a certain authority. Think about it, people don't understand this thing in the first place, so they come to the encyclopedia, and if the content in the encyclopedia is wrong information deliberately distorted and guided by someone, then when the rumor spreads, three people will become a tiger, how much harm will it cause?
In fact, many seemingly insignificant things in this world can cause endless harm if they are used by someone with ulterior motives. For example, the illustrations in textbooks may not be noticed by many people, but after one or two years, or ten or eight years, there will always be people who will look at them, right? And the textbooks themselves are authoritative, who would have thought that strange things would be mixed into the team of teachers and educators?
Over time, what is wrong will naturally become "right", and will be regarded as the norm and truth.
And the consequences were initially caused by some people perhaps just for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.
Think about it, will your blood pressure go up?
Although this is expensive and unprofitable, Lu Yiming really doesn't care. In addition to not wanting to make history again, he also made a lot of money from the U.S. aviation industry recently. If he directly discloses his personal assets, it is estimated that he will be close to Li Chaoren's 12.6 billion US dollars, and he is qualified to compete for the position of Asia's richest man.
In Lu Yiming's opinion, being so rich, he doesn't have to be pragmatic in everything. He can spend a little money on idealistic things, such as creating an Yixun Encyclopedia to improve the brand's reputation and at the same time seize the right to speak in society.
After all, encyclopedias are essentially standardized definitions of people, things, and objects, and their influence is even comparable to that of textbooks to some extent.
Can ordinary wealthy people spend money to revise history textbooks?
Don't even think about it.
But if he imitates Wikipedia, then Lu Yiming will have an opportunity to gain some degree of control over the discourse.
"You want to do it?"
Li Quanwang really didn't expect that Lu Yiming would do it just after he mentioned it. He didn't have the same complicated psychological activities as Lu Yiming, and thought that Lu Yiming doted on him. He was immediately moved and said affectionately: "Zha Zha Ming, you are so good to me."
"Eh..."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but shudder, and scolded with a smile: "Get lost, I'm a man."
Then, he said seriously, "I think this is indeed possible. I have a bad habit of wanting everything to be made in China. Since there is Wikipedia, why can't we make one ourselves? Wangzai, are you interested? Do you want to work with us?"
Li Quanwang said with some worry: "It's possible, but I heard that it doesn't make money. Who would invest money in such a project?"
He is just beginning to enjoy the life of a rich man. His desire for money is stronger than ever before, and he has no interest in doing anything that does not make money.
Just because Jimmie Wales and Larry Sanger can find a group of idealistic, wealthy and foolish people in the United States to donate to them doesn't mean that there are such people in our country.
After all, there are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one does business that will lose money.
Lu Yiming smiled calmly and said confidently, "Others don't dare to invest, but I do. Money is not a problem, but the content of this thing must be strictly controlled. Rigorous and accurate, these are the keywords I set for the encyclopedia."
Li Quanwang looked at Lu Yiming and said, "Could it be you who is the fool throwing money at it?"
Lu Yiming's face darkened: "Get lost, if you don't want to do it, I'll find someone else."
Li Quanwang said with a smile: "Fine, this is an interesting matter. I have granted your approval."
Lu Yiming and Li Quanwang have always been decisive in doing things. After the idea was agreed upon, Li Quanwang immediately went to recruit people, while Lu Yiming was responsible for financial sponsorship. They quickly formed an original team for Yixun Encyclopedia.
It is worth mentioning that Shi Qingxue also volunteered to lead the masters of the School of Literature to join the team and be responsible for literary content.
This suggestion hit the mark of Lu Yiming. He smiled and said to Shi Qingxue, "Then I'll leave this classification to you. After all, the more people participate in this project, the better."
As a platform for disseminating knowledge, Yixun Encyclopedia needs the active participation of talents from various disciplines in addition to programmers to achieve the ambitious goals set by Lu Yiming. Creating content is not difficult, but collecting information to verify the accuracy and reliability of entries is something that requires pure manpower.
Inspired by this, Lu Yiming went straight to Long Qiquan.
"President Long, I plan to jointly launch a project with Fu Ri University."
When Long Qiquan heard that Lu Yiming was going to cooperate with Fu Ri University again, he was very happy and asked, "I wonder what project Lu Yiming is going to cooperate with Fu Ri University on?"
Lu Yiming asked: "Principal Long, do you know Wikipedia?"
On January 13, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the website service on the Internet, which was the predecessor of Wikipedia.
On January 15, 2001, the online encyclopedia project was officially launched. The translated name of Wikipedia comes from the new word "Wikipedia" proposed by Sanger.
In May, Wikipedia launched a Chinese version.
It can be said that the current Wikipedia is a baby that is just six months old.
Li Quanwang actually knew how to use Wikipedia to study, which was actually beyond Lu Yiming's expectation. This showed that Li Quanwang had matured a lot during his college years.
Long Qiquan said: "Of course I know, this is a very useful tool, I often use it to look up information."
Lu Yiming smiled and asked, "Principal Long, have you ever thought that the content in Wikipedia is wrong?"
Long Qiquan was immediately surprised: "Wrong? How is that possible?"
Lu Yiming said: "The characteristics of Wikipedia are free content and free editing, which means that anyone can edit the content on it at will, regardless of whether the content is true or false. For example, I create an entry for Fu Ri University and write my name as the president. Then, do you think others will notice this wrong information when searching for this entry? After all, you search for this content without knowing it, which means you have no ability to distinguish whether this entry is right or wrong."
"this……"
There is no doubt that Lu Yiming's words make sense, and Long Qiquan cannot refute them at all.
Encyclopedias, with the halo of popular science and authority, the content on them may not be necessarily true. This is such a terrible thing.
Lu Yiming continued, "It is for this reason that I decided to set up an Yixun Encyclopedia. The uploading and creation of any entry requires rigorous verification. This requires a large number of manpower and authoritative sources of information, so I want to cooperate with Fu Ri University."
Long Qiquan was very happy to cooperate with this kind of academic work. After all, if this was done well, Fu Ri University would definitely be able to go down in history. Moreover, Lu Yiming only used a very simple example to make Long Qiquan understand the biggest bug in Wikipedia, and he could also think of many improper uses of Wikipedia.
Lu Yiming continued, "First, I plan to move all the entries of the books in the Fu Ri University Library to Yi Xun Encyclopedia. Then establish a complete reward and punishment mechanism."
"All creator accounts must be verified with real names and professional identities. This is the first rule."
"For every correct and complete entry uploaded, you can get a cash reward of 10 yuan. This is the second one. After all, uploading an entry is also a labor, and it is wrong not to reward it . I hate any behavior of free labor, which shows disrespect for people."
"I have also established a rebuttal mechanism. The person who created the entry must present theoretical and factual evidence to prove the accuracy and authority of the entry. Other users can provide supplementary evidence or rebuttal evidence. I will add a timeline to each entry. Since the entry was created, all Internet users can view every modification and addition in real time."
"I hope that Furi University can form a review expert team to review the entries. Once it is found that someone deliberately uploaded an incorrect entry, the violating user can be reported to the backstage immediately. If the violation is warned once and twice, the account will be directly cancelled and the ID number will be blocked, and the user will be permanently banned from registering Yixun Encyclopedia."
Long Qiquan was a little surprised and asked, "Deregistering the account twice? Isn't that a bit too harsh?"
Lu Yiming said: "I'm still giving you a chance. Don't forget the slogan of my Yixun Encyclopedia. Be rigorous and accurate. Inaccurate information cannot appear on Yixun Encyclopedia. Even if someone deliberately uploads ridiculously wrong information, I will contact the relevant departments to apply for an investigation! See if there is someone behind it."
“…”
Long Qiquan was shocked by Lu Yiming's strict measures, but in his heart he agreed with Lu Yiming's approach.
As someone who works in the academic circle, he naturally knows the harm of false information. Moreover, the words "authority" and "popular science" carry responsibility, so rigor is a must.
After being speechless for a long while, Long Qiquan said, "Okay, I will announce this cooperation at school and call on everyone to join in."
After securing the cooperation with Fu Ri University, Lu Yiming personally wrote a user specification for Yi Xun Encyclopedia and asked the Yi Xun Technology component team to develop the front-end and back-end of the website. Because of the Wikipedia case and Lu Yiming's familiarity with Baidu Encyclopedia, he made a very specific , which reduced the workload of the development team.
Afterwards, the news that Fu Ri University and Yi Xun Technology had jointly established Yi Xun Encyclopedia spread, which immediately attracted great attention, especially from the bigwigs in the academic circle, who had already been eager to try it out.
You know, this is an opportunity to "leave a name in history"!
At the Faculty of Arts at Fu Ri University, Shi Qingxue had just finished school and was walking hurriedly towards the School of Computer Science. Wu Mengmeng joked, "Oh, are you in such a hurry to see your lover again?"
Wu Mengmeng is fashionable and has a good figure. Although she is not a great beauty, she is the type that becomes more attractive the more you look at her. She also has a very high emotional intelligence. After learning that Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue had been flirting with each other in high school, she often teased Shi Qingxue about this matter and tried different ways to bring the two closer together.
After all, Lu Yiming's wealth continues to soar, and his position in the country is as stable as Mount Tai. He is definitely a golden thigh. If you can hold him, you should hold him.
Just as the two were chatting enthusiastically, a voice suddenly came from behind: "Shi Qingxue, wait a moment."
Shi Qingxue stopped, turned around, and saw a tall and beautiful girl with long legs walking towards her.
"Li Caixia, what can I do for you?"
She is Shi Qingxue's classmate and is known as one of the four beauties in the Faculty of Arts.
However, although they were classmates, she harbored a hidden hostility towards Shi Qingxue, especially after she learned that Shi Qingxue's boyfriend was Xia Country's richest man, Lu Yiming, she became so jealous that she almost went crazy.
It's just that she usually hides it very well and never shows it openly.
Li Caixia smiled and said, "Today is my birthday. Can you come to Long Yuxuan to attend my birthday party tonight? I heard that your boyfriend is also a student at Fu Ri University. Ask him to come too."
Shi Qingxue obviously didn't expect Li Caixia to suddenly invite her to the birthday party. She said unpreparedly, "Ah? Let me ask. I have to see if he's free."
Li Caixia didn't say anything, but kept smiling and said, "Okay. That's it for now, bye."
"Well, bye."
As soon as Li Caixia left, Shi Qingxue asked Wu Mengmeng in confusion, "Why did she suddenly invite me? It seems that our relationship is not that good, right?"
Wu Mengmeng had experienced a lot of intrigues between girls since she was a child, so she saw through Li Caixia's little thoughts at a glance and immediately said with a smile: "She is demonstrating to you."
Shi Qingxue had never experienced this before. She was still confused and asked, "Why are you showing off to me?"
Wu Mengmeng was well-informed and immediately said with a smile: "I heard that Li Caixia recently found a boyfriend who is studying at Jiaotong University. His family is quite rich and has a strong background, so she wanted to show off to you."
A happy life is achieved through comparison. Li Caixia has always been jealous of Shi Qingxue for being able to find a rich husband like Lu Yiming, so now that she has found a rich man, she naturally can't wait to "show off" to Shi Qingxue.
Although Lu Yiming was the richest man, his background did not have much of an advantage. In Xia Country, people attached great importance to status and seniority, so Li Caixia did not think that Lu Yiming's title as the richest man was anything special.
"Maybe you don't usually pay attention to these things. Li Caixia is very arrogant in her bones and has never admitted defeat. This time she just wants to prove that she has not lost to you."
After listening to Wu Mengmeng's explanation, Shi Qingxue was a little amused. She herself was not a person who liked to compare, so she didn't understand these things at all. In her opinion, love should be purely subjective. Whether you like someone or not depends on your heart and thoughts, not on whether your partner has money.
"Is this necessary?"
Wu Mengmeng sighed and said, "Why not? Do you think everyone has the same good fortune as you?"
Not to mention Li Caixia, Wu Mengmeng felt a little envious and even jealous. If it weren't for the fact that it was really difficult to dig up this person's foundation, she would have taken action long ago.
"All right."
After arriving at the entrance of the School of Computer Science, they waited for a while until Lu Yiming came out after class. Shi Qingxue then told him about Li Caixia's dinner invitation. At the end, she said, "If you don't have time, you don't have to go."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "If you are not active when eating, there must be something wrong with your brain. Why don't you go when someone invites you to dinner?"
"You."
Shi Qingxue smiled slightly and said, "Then let's go."
Long Yuxuan was not far from the school gate, less than two hundred meters away in a straight line. Lu Yiming did not call Zhao Tiezhu, but walked there directly with Shi Qingxue.
Long Yuxuan is a relatively high-end restaurant around the school. Ordinary students and even ordinary teachers and professors can hardly afford the prices of this restaurant.
At the door of Long Yuxuan, Li Caixia looked at him with .
She had not yet stepped out of the ivory tower, and she only knew that Lu Yiming was rich, but she had never experienced the power of money.
Anyway, in her opinion, all rich people are the same.
When the amount of money reaches a certain level, the concepts become similar.
Everyone can appreciate the difference between ten dollars and a hundred dollars, but very few can appreciate the difference between one hundred million and one hundred billion.
Behind Li Caixia, there was a bright red BMW 323 parked. It was the car of her boyfriend Li Feng.
Seeing Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue coming, Li Caixia took Li Feng's hand and introduced them to him, "Honey, this is the Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue I told you about."
Li Feng was holding Li Caixia's arm, seemingly in a friendly manner, but when he got closer, his eyes were fixed on Shi Qingxue, and even when he extended his hand to shake hands, he was facing Shi Qingxue.
"Hello, my name is Li Feng, and I study at Jiaotong University."
Shi Qingxue didn't mean to shake hands with him, but Lu Yiming stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello. So you are from Jiaotong University. I heard that the security guard at the south gate of your school broke up with the cleaning lady at the north gate. Is it true?"
"ah?"
Everyone was confused by Lu Yiming's words. Li Caixia asked, "Why did they break up?"
Lu Yiming said seriously: "The cleaning lady said she couldn't accept a long-distance relationship."
Before everyone could react, Lu Yiming patted Li Feng on the shoulder again and said in an envious tone: "Your school is really big."
Li Feng looked confused, but he thought Lu Yiming's words were a compliment, so he laughed dryly and said, "Ah, it's quite big. Come and play when you have time."
"Next time, for sure."
Lu Yiming asked, "When can we have dinner? I have two classes this afternoon and I am starving."
Upon hearing this, Li Feng and Li Caixia's eyes were filled with contempt.
How can a guest urge you to eat like this? This person is just like a nouveau riche, without any self-restraint.
