Blog Idea Factory » wikipedia http://www.blogideafactory.com Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Google launches Knol – a wiki with bylines http://www.blogideafactory.com/2008/07/25/google-launches-knol-a-wiki-with-bylines/ http://www.blogideafactory.com/2008/07/25/google-launches-knol-a-wiki-with-bylines/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:10:22 +0000 Henk http://www.blogideafactory.com/2008/07/25/google-launches-knol-a-wiki-with-bylines/ Google’s newly launched social-informational site, Knol, is described as being very similar to Wikipedia’s community intelligence model, but with one major twist: Knol articles are given bylines. The articles, are single-topic, stand alone entries and are not updated chronologically as in the Wikipedia model.

Knol has also publishing tools similar to single blog pages. But unlike blogs, Knol encourages writers to reduce what they know about a topic to a single page that is not chronologically updated.

Google plans to implement a ranking system for articles written on similar topics, which will push relevant articles to the top and encourage competition.

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