名称：维基百科。年龄：25岁。外观：居高临下且深度偏见。这是因为你没有自己的页面吗？嗯，是的。但这些不是我的话。它们是桑迪·托克斯维格说的。
Name: Wikipedia. Age: 25. Appearance: Patronising and deeply biased. Is this because you haven’t got your own page? Well, yes. But these aren’t my words. They’re the words of Sandi Toksvig.
但它拥有超过300种语言的6500万篇文章！这是有史以来最大的知识资源！这可能没错，但它在女性议题上表现得并不好。
But it has 65m articles across more than 300 languages! It’s the largest knowledge resource ever assembled! That may be, but it isn’t very good at women.
托克斯维格这么说吗？是的——而且她对此非常认真。就在我们说话的时候，她正在环游世界，试图筹集资金来建造更好的东西。
According to Toksvig? Yes – and she’s very serious about it. As we speak, she is travelling the world trying to raise money to build something better.
她是这样吗？是的。她与剑桥大学合作，希望她的“世界地图”项目能成为一个“交互式数字地图集”，在那里我们可以为目前被边缘化或删除的大量知识找到一个家园。
She is? Yes. Along with the University of Cambridge, she hopes that her Mappa Mundi project will be an “interactive digital atlas where we can find a home for the vast amount of knowledge that is currently sidelined or deleted”.
而许多被边缘化或删除的知识是关于女性的吗？是的。她引用了加拿大物理学家唐娜·斯特里克兰的案例，她的草稿传记曾多次被维基百科拒绝，直到她因工作获得诺贝尔奖。
And a lot of the sidelined or deleted knowledge is about women? It is. She cites the case of Donna Strickland, a Canadian physicist who repeatedly had her draft biographies rejected by Wikipedia, until she won a Nobel prize for her work.
这很尴尬。但问题更广泛。根据维基媒体基金会自身的估计，只有19%的维基百科传记涉及女性。托克斯维格认为这是由于该网站主要由“有时间和技术的白人中年欧洲男性”编辑所致，她在本周末的切尔滕纳姆文学节上如此表示。
Awkward. But it goes broader. By the Wikimedia Foundation’s own estimate, only 19% of Wikipedia biographies concern women. Toksvig puts this down to the site being edited by “mostly white, middle-aged, European men who have both the time and the technology”, she told Cheltenham literature festival this weekend.
我不知道这一点。其内容严重偏向富裕国家。例如，2013年，牛津互联网研究所发现，维基百科对德国的报道比对非洲和南美洲的报道总和还多。
I didn’t know that. Its content is weighted heavily towards wealthy countries. In 2013, for instance, the Oxford Internet Institute discovered that Wikipedia contained more coverage of Germany than of Africa and South America combined.
维基百科不是太左翼了吗？哦，天哪，你是埃隆·马斯克吗？这是他过去几年反复提出的主张，甚至称其为“醒目百科”（Wokepedia）。
Isn’t Wikipedia too leftwing anyway? Oh God, are you Elon Musk? This is a claim he has repeated for the last couple of years, to the extent of calling it “Wokepedia”.
他对此做了什么？他创建了自己的版本——一个由人工智能驱动的替代品，名为Grokipedia。
And what did he do about it? He started his own version – an AI-powered alternative called Grokipedia.
它更好吗？2025年11月发表的一篇论文发现，Grokipedia的文章包含英语维基百科社区列入黑名单的来源的可能性是维基百科的13倍。
And is it better? A paper published in November 2025 discovered that Grokipedia articles are 13 times more likely to contain a source blacklisted by the English Wikipedia community.
什么是被列入黑名单的来源？该报指出，在其出版时，Grokipedia 对被禁的新纳粹网站 Stormfront 包含了 42 条引用。
What’s a blacklisted source? The paper pointed out that, at the time of its publication, Grokipedia included 42 citations for the banned neo-Nazi website Stormfront.
哎呀。快来《世界地图集》吧！确实，Toksvig 的版本意图更好。除此之外，希望它能更新维基百科关于在厕所去世的人名单，以包含更多女性。可以说：“维基百科存在系统性偏见。”
Yeesh. Bring on Mappa Mundi! Indeed, Toksvig’s version has better intentions. If nothing else, hopefully it will update Wikipedia’s list of people who died on the toilet to include more women. Do say: “Wikipedia is systemically biased.”
不要说：“终于，埃隆·马斯克和桑迪·托克斯维格在这件事上达成了一致。”
Don’t say: “At last, something Elon Musk and Sandi Toksvig can agree on.”