[WikiEN-l] Google Knol: Move over Wikipedia?
cohesion
cohesion at sleepyhead.org
Fri Dec 14 21:45:53 UTC 2007
On Dec 14, 2007 3:24 PM, Will Beback <will.beback.1 at 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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