QUOTE(daganev @ Dec 14 2007, 03:18 PM) 466044
Adding legitimacy to wikipedia? That article didn't have anything to do with wikipedia.
It looks to be a competitor.. so I'm not totally sure I get what your comment means.QUOTE(daganev @ Dec 14 2007, 03:31 PM) 466049
Look into the future...
Google is looking at the source of information as being A: important and B: an incentive to share accurate knowledge.
New ideas never stay put.
Google is looking at the source of information as being A: important and B: an incentive to share accurate knowledge.
New ideas never stay put.
Given Google's track record though, I'm betting they'll do it correctly right out the gate this new knol system will become the new while Wikipedia will probably atrophy.
All it will take is a good level of support by teachers and schools encouraging their students to use knol, whereas currently they discourage the use of Wikipedia. I think that's all it would take, and knol, as a fresh system starting out in the right direction is a lot more likely to get that accreditation, as it were, than the pre-existing Wikipedia simply due to pre-planted bias.