Wiki source code of Wikipedia, KNOL, and Encyclopedia Britannica

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<h2>Project: Wikipedia, KNOL, and Encyclopedia Britannica</h2>
Study these different environments and determine their strengths and weaknesses -> a starting point is the table shown in the pdf. Consider the different viewpoints - for example for contributors, for readers, as a process, as a product.
<h3>Characterization of KNOL</h3>
Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about\\those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.\\2. The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the\\web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads: millions of people\\know useful things and billions more could benefit from that knowledge. Knol will\\encourage these people to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to\\everyone. *-> motivation*\\3. The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of\\authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion.\\We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.\\4. With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call\\"moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol\\which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions\\become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the\\world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!\\5. what is the relationship of "moderated collaboration" to Model Authoritative and Model\\Democratic (see suggested project for this topic)\\6. Knols include strong community tools which allow for many modes of interaction between\\readers and authors. People can submit comments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the\\discretion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense program. If an author\\chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with a revenue share from the\\proceeds of those ad placements.\\7. We are happy to announce an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any\\author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker's extensive cartoon repository.\\Cartoons are an effective (and fun) way to make your point, even on the most serious topics.\\-> *intellectual property rights*

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