[Wikipedia-l] Knol

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On 14/12/2007, cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
>
> "Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to
> try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a
> unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a
> particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The
> tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of
> testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to
> share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project."
>
> From google
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
>
> Just wondering what people think. :)
>
> Judson
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion
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It reminds me a lot of everything2, except for 'experts'.