[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Anthony]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:44 AM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 4/23/2009 1:42:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dgerard at gmail.com writes:
>
> * NPOV  (I don't think so, lots have tried this)
> * Notability (possibly - our  breadth is our key asset, and overapplied
> "notability" rules trash  this)
> * NOR (maybe - note that not every Wikipedia has this rule)
> *  Expert privilege (Citizendium is trying this, we'll see how it  goes)>>
>
>
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> Money.. and author credit.
> Knol is trying that.


I wouldn't say money is a big part of what's different about Knol.  Author
credit, sure.  But also NPOV, Notability, NOR, Expert privilege, licensing,
OWN, etc.  Knol is very very different from Wikipedia.  In fact, I'd even
say they're *slightly* too different.