At my daughter's New York City high school her teachers tell her to not to use Wikipedia. When I talked to Jimmy Wales in Davos a few weeks ago, I expected him to be dismissive, perhaps even contemptuous, about such attitudes.
I は Fortuneの編集者 David Kirkpatrick で Jimmy Wales はWikipediaの設立者。
"I always say it's a matter of using Wikipedia appropriately," he says. "I always laugh when somebody tells high school kids not to use it at all.That's like telling them not to listen to rock music.Whether it should be something you should cite in a paper, that's another issue."
↑ このThat's like telling them not to listen to rock music.
Wikipediaの推奨する使い方は・・・
You should use it for broad background and some specifics.
↑ その通り。ようは調べたいことの入り口、ポータル的な使い方がベスト。
で、そのたとえとして・・・
an article about itin Wikipedia, andit's almost sure to be reliable. But if the article talks about a goal being made at the last moment, that conceivably could be something apranksterslipped in and we missed.
He believes that in the "open society" he seeks on the Internet, it's important to have mechanisms in place that enable people to "look under the hood" at the tools they use.
だから、WalesさんはWikipediaのようなものが大切だと信じている。
look under the hood は直訳は「ボンネットの中を見る」だけれども、構造をチェックしようというような意味のたとえ。
自分たちの使っているツールをブラックボックスにしないようにと。
It's not a complaint the average user of Google is likely to share.
↑Googleの問題とはまた別。
で、締めくくりがWalesさんのコメントで、
He promises a public prototype of the search product "within the next few months," and "something really functional in a year or so.
↑ これは楽しみですね。これから数ヶ月のうちの発表に注目です。
で、ほんとの締めくくりはこれ↓
I'll let you know if my daughter's teachers let her use it.