https://espresso.economist.com/fa3ac9e7b5e2ed174bc1104f1c9ec9b6 -- Jan 15th 2019
An awkward coming of age: Wikipedia
- awkward 令人尴尬的；使人难堪的；难对付的；难处理的
Wikipedia was born 18 years ago today, when Jimmy Wales, a co-founder, typed “hello world” into a primitive web editor and clicked “publish”.
- primitive 简单的；粗糙的
Now the world’s fifth-most-popular website, with 27bn words in 293 languages, is a crucial reference.
- crucial 至关重要的；关键性的
But fewer new people are joining up to edit it, as the work involves no pay and no management.
The dominance of phones is one reason.
- dominance 优势；控制；权势
When full-sized computers were the primary way to go online, popping over to Wikipedia to tinker with a pet topic was easy.
- pop over 赶到；弹出通知；去一下
- tinker with 修复；笨拙地修补
But as people start working exclusively on phones and tablets, that reduces the number who can comfortably edit Wikipedia.
- exclusively 仅仅；专门地；特定地；排外地
And its community sometimes struggles to welcome outsiders.
- outsider 外来者
A discussion page on the issue states that a “lack of collaboration and ‘lone wolf’ culture repels new editors.”
- discussion page 讨论页
- lack of 缺乏
- collaboration 合作；协作；合作成果（或作品）；通敌
- repel 抵制
- editor 编辑；校刊者；校订者
- lone wolf 独战士（ someone who likes to be or work alone）
Like any other community online or off, Wikipedia must find a way to change and grow while keeping existing denizens happy.
- denizen 暂住某处的人;常去某处的人
