[Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 11:56:44 UTC 2011


On 17 June 2011 12:29, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>  That could be a good
> use case for a project like Knol, which was advertised as "Wikipedia
> killer" once, but didn't grow much.


Minor note: as far as I know, *no-one* from Knol/Google ever claimed
it had anything to do with WIkipedia. The entire notion appeared to me
to have arisen in the technical press in the week after Knol's
announcement, apparently on the basis that both were written by
unfiltered contributors, which was still a radical notion to the press
at the time. The comparison stuck, but I know of no evidence that that
was the intention.


- d.




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