2007/12/14, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com:
On Dec 14, 2007 1:38 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
The strange thing is with possibliity to editing this by many and simultaneusly puting just one name of author. Or the idea is that only one author can edit? If so, there is no reason to have "edit" tab visible by all.. It is not clear to me, what they really want to do.
2 years ago, Microsoft introduced the edit button at msn-encarta. "Edit" is their way of saying "you are allowed to submit suggestions how to improve the article and you are free to do that be simply making the suggestion as if this was an edit button".
It would be technically possible (but not entirely logical) to have the main author of an article work as the person acknowledging the proposed edit.
Well, if the publication will be in fact a contribution of many authors, the "author" shown on the page should be rather called "editor in chief", collecting and checking other's people contributions. They write, that the idea is that author can agree to put some adds on his/her "knol" and then have some income. So, if you contribute substantially to someone's else "knol" the author shown on the page will get income for your work...