What Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, Thinks about Knol, the New Google Competitor

in Google, Video - Arts & Culture, Wikipedia | July 27th, 2008 Comments

Here is Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, being interviewed after Google debuted Knol. Interesting that his first thought is that users should copy Knol content and bring it to Wikipedia … :

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  • Ramana Kumar
    He did not say that users should copy Knol content for Wikipedia. He said that the default Knol license permits doing that. Thankfully both Wikipedia and Knol seem to be more interested in open culture than the people who label them as competitors.
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