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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Knol vs. Citizendium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Dec 16 14:50:01 2007
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Greetings. I've been asked why I didn't mention the Citizendium
( http://www.citizendium.org ) project in my discussion of "Google's
Knol vs. Wikipedia" (Citizendium was founded by Wikipedia co-founder
Larry Sanger).
It's really a very different ball of wax. While Citizendium does
attribute authors and editors, a concept I obviously support, it
still (as I understand it) continues to allow uncontrolled changes
of most items at any time by anyone in their pool of accepted
contributers (though particular versions may be flagged as
"approved," further changes by any contributers to additional
versions can apparently continue).
This appears very different from the Google knol model where
comments and discussion of items are welcome, but the foundational
essays themselves are controlled by the original author, who has
demonstrated expertise in that specific field. This is a world of
difference, and personally I much prefer the reported knol
methodology.
One other thing. Knol will allow authors to potentially receive
some financial compensation for their work through ads if they
wish. I think it's about time that we recognize a basic fact -- not
everyone has the resources to write everything for free on the Net,
and while I prefer that authors be paid on a direct basis for their
work, the knol methodology at least gives them a shot at getting
something in return to help pay the rent.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
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