[WikiEN-l] Knol goes live

[geni]

2008/7/24 Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org>:
> A blogger at the LA Times wonders when the "gold rush" will start for
> people to claim ownership of articles on Knol:
>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/07/knol-has-nothin.html
>
> In particular, he pointed out that Knol does not currently have an
> article about Wikipedia, so I decided to do my part and create one:
>
> http://knol.google.com/k/sheldon-rampton/-/8r9tdjdcsltq/2#
>
> I basically cut-and-pasted the existing Wikipedia article, although I
> did make one minor correction. The current version fails to credit me
> as Wikipedia's creator. It mentions some guy named Jimmy Wales
> instead. Anyway, I fixed it in my Knol version. ;-)

Cutting and pasting wikipedia content without following the terms of
the GFDL is rather problematical.


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geni