[WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

[Sage Ross]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:15 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/7/2009 7:15:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> wikiagk at googlemail.com writes:
>
>
>> Unsurprising indeed. I get the impression, from projects such as Knol,
>> that
>> Google is something of an admirer of the Wikipedia model.>>
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>
> Knol however is only collaborative on the meta-level.  And even then only
> spottily.
> The articles are not typically collaborations, but rather independent
> creations of a single individual.
>

Knol is an intermediate platform between a blog and a wiki... it's not
primarily a collaborative platform (so in terms of authorship, it's
blog-like), but what's relevant here is it's wiki-like structure: the
permalinked, timeless topic-based pages rather than the scrolling
timeline of a blog.

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)