維基百科的方針是所有的條目應該以中立的觀點(Neutral Point Of View)寫作:沒有偏向(Bias),公平的陳述所有的觀點。按照維基百科的創始人吉米·威爾斯的說法,中立的觀點是「絕對的和無可爭辯的」(absolute and non-negotiable)。
「絕對的和無可爭辯的」卻不一定是中立?
Children predicted 3 hour flights across the Atlantic, push button telephones, cameras that developed their own photographs and inflation that would quadruple the price of new cars, democratic governments promoting terrorism, and most surprising was the fact of "group predicting" where the collective zeitgeist powered the group with enhanced predictive abilities.
早在Wikileaks之前,各種類似的計畫與活動已經在網路上展開(例如911真相調查),不過Wikileaks既然強調Wiki特性,想必是希望將這些資料作更全面性的整理,成為世界共通平台,讓使用者透過網路分享與協作,畢竟很多政府幹的事情不是只跟單一國內政府有關,往往都有跨國利益糾葛。
Bingo!!
Wikileaks may become the most powerful "intelligence agency" on earth -- an intelligence agency of the people. It will be an open source, democratic intelligence agency. But it will be far more principled, and far less parochial than any governmental intelligence agency; consequently, it will be more accurate, and more relevant.
開放且匿名的情報分享平台-Wikileaks http://www.hemidemi.com/bookmark/info/434673
In The Global Brain Awakens (2000), an update of The Global Brain (1983), Russell's most popular book, he opens with part one on the Gaia Hypothesis. In part two, he discusses orders of evolution going from the evolution of the early universe during the Big Bang, through biological evolution, and finishing with "the emerging social superorganism." In part three, he discusses "inner evolution" and the "high-synergy society".
近代提出集體智慧概念的前衛思想家、生態哲學家、電腦科學家... 提倡"高度協作社會"的範型. 其被譯為中文的著作:《地球腦的覺醒》(The Global Brain Awakens).
The key question for the CCI, said director Thomas Malone at the center's October launch, is "How can people and computers be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual, group, or computer has ever done before?"
MIT集體智慧中心(CCI)的新計劃
Companies that adhere to Web 2.0 principles understand how to harness the collective intelligence to make their systems better. A collective intelligence is achieved when a critical mass of participation is reached within a site or system, allowing the participants to act as a filter for what is valuable.
Web 2.0和集體智慧的聯姻
三個臭皮匠,勝過一個諸葛亮,群眾的智慧能夠贏過Google這個網路世界的「奇才」嗎?維基百科(Wikipedia)的創辦人吉米‧威爾斯(Jimmy Wales)相信,結合電腦和人腦的新型搜尋引擎,終有一天,可以取代Google,成為網路搜尋業的新霸主。
Wikiasari - 作為將集體智慧運用在搜尋引擎的例子