That's the real world. On any subject about which contradictory views are possible, they are present. There will be a place for those information sources attempting to provide a reliable synthesis. The goal is to make WP the source which can be shown to be the most reliable at it, and the WP hypothesis is that this can be done by collaborative editing.
On 12/14/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007 3:24 PM, Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com wrote:
I predict that some enterprising souls will quickly "create" knols by using GFDL text from Wikipedia, thus getting paid for the work of others. After that, other writers will take the same text and modify it to improve its popularity, creating dozens of variations on the same text.
Will
Ha, yikes. It will be a race! What will google do when there are 50 articles with the same text about the same thing... As long as attribution is ok, I don't guess this is a licensing issue, but it's still kinda ugly.
Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
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