2009/8/10 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: > Some weeks ago I had an opportunity to talk with a Google employee > about a number of topics. One of the things we discussed was Knol. > Setting aside the way it may have been marketed in the popular press > at the time, she suggested that Google does not currently see Knol as > a collaborative medium in the way Wikipedia is. Rather, they > currently regard Knol as more of a web publishing platform. In other > words, it is a place for individuals and small groups to post their > work online with a certain degree of infrastructure and visibility > (and Google ads, of course).
Yes. Google never pushed Knol as a "Wikipedia killer" and at no time, before or since launch, was it put forward by Google as something that could replace Wikipedia. The comparison to Wikipedia was a complete media fiction, invented from the need to fill space. It has no other basis. > Rather than being the next Wikipedia, maybe a better analogy would be > to think of Knol as the next Geocities. ooh, ouch. I'd hope "the next about.com" at least. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
