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From the Ted Talk by Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia

Unscramble the Blue Letters


First of all, how good is it? Well, it's pretty good. It isn't perfcet, but it's much better than you would expect, given our completely caitohc model. So when you saw him make a ridiculous edit to the page about me, you think, "Oh, this is obviously just going to dneareegte into rubbish." But when we've seen quality tests — and there haven't been enough of these yet and I'm really encouraging people to do more, comparing Wikipedia to traditional things — we win hands down.

So a German magazine compared German Wikipedia, which is much, much smaller than English, to msrocfiot Encarta and to Brockhaus multimedial, and we won across the board. They hried experts to come and look at articles and cramope the quality, and we were very pleased with that result.

Open Cloze


First of all, how good is it? Well, it's pretty good. It isn't _______, but it's much better than you would expect, given our completely _______ model. So when you saw him make a ridiculous edit to the page about me, you think, "Oh, this is obviously just going to __________ into rubbish." But when we've seen quality tests — and there haven't been enough of these yet and I'm really encouraging people to do more, comparing Wikipedia to traditional things — we win hands down.

So a German magazine compared German Wikipedia, which is much, much smaller than English, to _________ Encarta and to Brockhaus multimedial, and we won across the board. They _____ experts to come and look at articles and _______ the quality, and we were very pleased with that result.

Solution


  1. microsoft
  2. perfect
  3. chaotic
  4. degenerate
  5. hired
  6. compare

Original Text


First of all, how good is it? Well, it's pretty good. It isn't perfect, but it's much better than you would expect, given our completely chaotic model. So when you saw him make a ridiculous edit to the page about me, you think, "Oh, this is obviously just going to degenerate into rubbish." But when we've seen quality tests — and there haven't been enough of these yet and I'm really encouraging people to do more, comparing Wikipedia to traditional things — we win hands down.

So a German magazine compared German Wikipedia, which is much, much smaller than English, to Microsoft Encarta and to Brockhaus multimedial, and we won across the board. They hired experts to come and look at articles and compare the quality, and we were very pleased with that result.

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Important Words


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