From: Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live
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. ;-)
Heh. They don't appear to have a "talk" sorta' page. So I can't lambast you about how Wikipedia was actually created by Al Gore, two years before he invented the internet, with the assistance of space aliens from the planet Rigel 7 and 1/3. And Bill Gates, can't forget him.
But that's gonna' be a major failing of it. People don't have the ability to say something's crap except by rating it lowly, and people on the internet tend to rate funny things highly instead of truthful things.
[[User:Lifebaka]]
Well, if you search for Sheldon's Wikipedia article instead of following the link you won't find it. That is because, apparently, Google has not made most of the user added knol's publicly searchable. If you search for your own while logged in, you'll see it - but no one else will. At least in the early stages, it means a lot of people will create duplicate articles unaware of what has already been written.
Nathan
Well, wish them luck. But more luck we can use! We're still the leading open-source info website on the internet.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Well, if you search for Sheldon's Wikipedia article instead of following the link you won't find it. That is because, apparently, Google has not made most of the user added knol's publicly searchable. If you search for your own while logged in, you'll see it - but no one else will. At least in the early stages, it means a lot of people will create duplicate articles unaware of what has already been written.
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Hughes lifebaka@gmail.com wrote:
But that's gonna' be a major failing of it. People don't have the ability to say something's crap except by rating it lowly, and people on the internet tend to rate funny things highly instead of truthful things.
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Just kidding.