[WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wiki...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

Farhad has a fatal flaw in his argument (I assume it is a *he*).  His  flaw 
is believing that Knol is an encyclopedia and that it is "the next  Wikipedia". 
 Neither situation represents what Knol actually is.
 
Knol is an online magazine -- multiple authors with bylines (credit),  
writing mostly individual articles *with some small input* and doing so to  promote 
their business or themselves.  That's not the reason d'etre of an  
encyclopedia.
 
The next step for Knol is probably going to be the creation of  
sub-communities and cities built *on top of* the content.  Some of us have  already made 
baby-steps in that direction with indexes, but what we really need  is 
categories and better userfication with projects and portals.

Knol is only a few months old, but already it seems like a much more  Randian 
approach to the underlying issue than Wikipedia.  That is, each  artist is 
allowed to fully express their art-form in their own way, and the best  art 
rises to the top of the heap.  That's the intent, it may not yet be the  fact.  It 
may never be.  We'll see.
 
Will Johnson



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