On 16/12/2007, Omegatron <9ybf94w02(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007 3:22 AM, David Gerard
dgerard-at-......... |Wikipedia
mailing lists (wikitech-l, wikien-l)| <... > wrote:
> It's not free content, so that immediately
makes it less useful or
> interesting in our terms.
But that has no bearing on whether it will be a
competitor. The regular
people reading our articles and linking us to the top search results don't
know and don't care about licensing. To them, the "free" in the tagline
means "no credit card required". Wikipedia is at the top because of its
neutrality and comprehensiveness (and maybe indirectly because of its
license; if only because of links from the multitude of mirrors our license
spawns).
Their aim is to be a competitor in page hits. Page hits aren't our
primary goal. (I just started a thread on foundation-l about the
benefits and problems of popularity.) More freely-reusable content is
our goal, and if we can encourage Google to turn their massive
resources to that then it's excellent for everyone. And quality
articles written by experts on Knol will be useful as good references
for Wikipedia articles!
- d.