[WikiEN-l] Making Wikipedia an author for Google Knol ?

Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Fri Jul 25 05:25:36 UTC 2008


Carl Beckhorn wrote:
> Has anyone in a position to do so (i.e., a representative of the 
> Wikimedia Foundation) contacted Google to negotiate making Wikipedia an 
> "author" for Google's Knol service? This seems like a natural thing to 
> consider - we have a lot of good content, and could take a reduced ad 
> rate from them. On the other hand, they presumably need good content. 

I'm sure if we wanted to set up our own Wikipedia mirror with ads, we
could do it without Google's help.

-- Tim Starling




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