Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:06:49 +0100 From: "Al Tally" majorly.wiki@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia. To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 7c865bab0809222306q8402548y54a5e72f1ee06c11@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day Wikipedia folks,
Farhad Manjoo of Slate has written a damning review of Knol.
http://www.slate.com/id/2200401/
"There are two articles about Sarah Palin on Google Knolhttp://knol.google.com/k/knol, the search company's abysmal new Wikipedia-like reference guide. One of them< http://knol.google.com/k/marc-samuel-delvarello/sarah-palin/34hdx7ks0jha3/93...
is
a mess: Just a few hundred words long, the article is fraught with factual and grammatical errors." More in article
It looks like someone's school essay on her... I mean, come on, there's blatant typos there...
Did you just sign that e-mail as Majorly or did I miss something?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Flameviper Velifang < theflameysnake@yahoo.com> wrote:
Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:06:49 +0100 From: "Al Tally" majorly.wiki@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia. To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 7c865bab0809222306q8402548y54a5e72f1ee06c11@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day Wikipedia folks,
Farhad Manjoo of Slate has written a damning review of Knol.
http://www.slate.com/id/2200401/
"There are two articles about Sarah Palin on Google Knolhttp://knol.google.com/k/knol, the search company's abysmal new Wikipedia-like reference guide. One of them<
http://knol.google.com/k/marc-samuel-delvarello/sarah-palin/34hdx7ks0jha3/93...
is
a mess: Just a few hundred words long, the article is fraught with factual and grammatical errors." More in article
It looks like someone's school essay on her... I mean, come on, there's blatant typos there...
-- Alex (User:Majorly)
You see, this is why we have the [edit] button.
/me smirks contentedly
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM, John Reaves johnjreaves@gmail.com wrote:
Did you just sign that e-mail as Majorly or did I miss something?
He replied under Majorly's signature and didn't greater-than-quote the message.