[WikiEN-l] Andrew Keen continues to be teflon clueless

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/22/2008 10:38:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com writes:

And  seriously, Knol? It's a cesspool, it's useless. Half the articles
are  promotional, the other halfs are straight copies from wikipedia
(copies  that don't fulfill all the requirements of the GFDL, btw).
Just as a test,  I just tried one search on Knol, to compare articles
with Wikipedia. I  searched "Kentucky". I figured, it has to have an
article on Kentucky. It's  a US state for cryin' out loud. I was wrong.
My search came up  nil.


--Oskar>>>
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It seems to me that people using Knol are more likely to write about topics  
in which they are somewhere experts or have a fan-level interest.
 
"Kentucky" just doesn't generate the level of interest that "Bill Gates"  
does.  I think there are at least three biographies of him on Knol.
 
I think our own Kentucky article was built from dozens if not hundreds of  
tiny bits.  Some WP articles however are more than 50% the creation of a  single 
writer.  As far as the license, I think more writers would take your  
suggestion that they add a link to the WP article if the Knol article is truly a  
copy.  But even our "partners" fail the license in almost every case.
 
Will Johnson

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