In a message dated 10/22/2008 10:38:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, oskarsigvardsson@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>>> ------------------------------ 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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