[WikiEN-l] Google Knol: Move over Wikipedia?

[Simon Walker]

On 14/12/2007, Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Utkarshraj Atmaram wrote:
> > "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone
> > who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read."
> >
> > <
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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
>
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The text from the knol could then be copied back into Wikipedia (assuming
licences still compatiable) and become a viscous circle.

Stwalkerster