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

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the point is my role in the community — Within the free sawfrtoe world, there's been a long-standing tdriaotin of the "benevolent dictator" model. So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single peorsn in charge who everyone agrees is the benevolent dictator. Well, I don't like the term "benevolent dictator," and I don't think that it's my job or my role in the world of iaeds to be the dictator of the future of all human knowledge compiled by the wolrd. It just isn't appropriate. But there is a need still for a certain amount of monarchy, a certain amount of — sometimes we have to make a decision and we don't want to get bogged down too heavily in formal decision-making processes.

Open Cloze

the point is my role in the community — Within the free ________ world, there's been a long-standing _________ of the "benevolent dictator" model. So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single ______ in charge who everyone agrees is the benevolent dictator. Well, I don't like the term "benevolent dictator," and I don't think that it's my job or my role in the world of _____ to be the dictator of the future of all human knowledge compiled by the _____. It just isn't appropriate. But there is a need still for a certain amount of monarchy, a certain amount of — sometimes we have to make a decision and we don't want to get bogged down too heavily in formal decision-making processes.

Solution

  1. tradition
  2. person
  3. ideas
  4. world
  5. software

Original Text

the point is my role in the community — Within the free software world, there's been a long-standing tradition of the "benevolent dictator" model. So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single person in charge who everyone agrees is the benevolent dictator. Well, I don't like the term "benevolent dictator," and I don't think that it's my job or my role in the world of ideas to be the dictator of the future of all human knowledge compiled by the world. It just isn't appropriate. But there is a need still for a certain amount of monarchy, a certain amount of — sometimes we have to make a decision and we don't want to get bogged down too heavily in formal decision-making processes.

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Important Words

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