[WikiEN-l] Knol goes live

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:40 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
At least he preserved the section entitled History...
http://knol.google.com/k/sheldon-rampton/-/8r9tdjdcsltq/2#H0-History