Knol: A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.

The project was already announced in December 2007, and nobody spoke much about it till today.

Knol encyclopedia – based on the Wikipedia model – has been launched officially yesterday.

The main difference with Wikipedia is that experts are named ( at the start today I mainly see articles related on health subjects) that publish a basic article, that article can be annoted and commented by the community, but only the author can decide if the article can be modified by another person.

Also advertisements can be placed around the subject and the author will receive a % fee, this could become one of the main reasons why people would write for Knol instead of Wikipedia.

Google also signed an agreement with the The New Yorker  giving authors the possibility to add one cartoon per article, among the big stock.

Welcome to this new tool, the future will tell if it’s model is a complement or a concurent of Wikipedia… My idea is that they will live peacefully near each other.

David Norden

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image source : Knol

http://knol.google.com/

Tags: Knol, wikipedia

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