[WikiEN-l] Knol product manager suggests it as a source

[Fayssal F.]

For some reasons, there exist some people who call every detergent "Tide" or
every toothpaste "Colgate". There are some others who call all kinds of
encyclopaedias "Wikipedia<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/07/25/medical-wikipedia-is-looking-for-a-few-good-doctors/>"
for some other reasons. It works for the best of the *brand*s in the first
case but i am not sure if it is helpful for the second since people who use
detergents and toothpastes are *not* necessarily well-informed. It is also
not helpful because the online medical encyclopedia "Medipedia" has already
started to look for a "few [well-informed] good doctors."

Tomorrow there would be stuff like "Cosmopedia" and "Militaropedia" looking
for some few good experts. There exist but I am talking about Web 2.0/3.0
expert-generated content encyclopaedias. There's a risk for us losing
ground. Well-informed people would stop calling every encyclopedia
"Wikipedia". Also,Google brings much traffic to Wikipedia (supposedly
because "Big Daddy" is based on incoming links' count) but things may change
quickly and, assuming google algorithm would be kept unchanged, websites
linking to Wikipedia articles can start linking to new expert 'pedias once
content starts growing.

Fayssal F.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:27:33 +0100 "Fayssal F." <szvest at gmail.com> wrote:
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"Anonymous prestige or money and fame?"<http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=1178>

medipedia.com seems like a potential serious project.

Fayssal F.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:54 +0100 Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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I don't doubt people will look up medical info there.  As long as it's
updated.

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Charles

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