一起來"設計"你心目中的美國總統
Fed up with the flaws of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain?
Here's your chance to set things right.
An innovative website using Wikipedia-like collaborative software has given people around the world to design the perfect candidate for the US presidency.
On , contributors in the quest for the ideal person to run America over the next four years can edit or over-write previous entries, changing the sex, name, photo and political agenda and response to events in the news.
Wikicandidate has kicked off proceedings with an imaginary candidate based on a real-life American satirical comedian, Stephen Colbert.
According to the site's bio, Colbert plays cello and mandolin and wants to fix climate change, global poverty and food insecurity.
The project has a serious goal, the British weekly New Scientist reports.
It has been launched by researchers at Cornell University in New York, who want to explore the benefits and disadvantages of "online civic participation" in election year.
If enough people take part, the profile of the candidate that eventually emerges "will act as a wish list" of the characteristics that voters desire in a US president, they hope.
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日前，一個頗有創新精神的“維基”網站爲世界各地的人們提供了一個設計心目中完美美國總統候選人的機會。
想找到心目中理想總統人選的人可登陸網站，編輯或改寫已有的“候選人”資料，比如性別、姓名、照片、施政綱領以及對新聞事件的迴應等。
Wikicandidate網站上最初創建的條目是以美國諷刺喜劇演員斯蒂芬·科爾伯特爲原型的一個虛擬候選人。
根據該網站上的個人簡介，科爾伯特會演奏大提琴和曼陀林（一種琵琶樂器），而且致力於解決氣候變化、全球貧困及食品安全等問題。
據《英國新科學家》週刊報道，該活動還有一個很嚴肅的目的。
該活動由紐約康奈爾大學的研究人員發起，其中一個目的就是研究大選之年“公民網上參與”的利與弊。
研究人員希望，如果參與該活動的人足夠多，最終被“設計成型”的候選人的資質“將能爲選民們期待總統所應具備的資質”提供參考。
