[Kennypor]

They have a lot of catching up to do
I dont think wikipedia can be beaten... I even use it for stuff like sport results because it updates faster than the official sites

[Repwailia]

no, before wikipedia, it makers try something like this but it didn't work that well. wikipedia was actually the side project but it end up overtaking the original program.

[Soadiassy]

I think there's a subtle difference between knol and wikipedia. Knol is more about 1 expert writing an article about a particular subject, whereas wikipedia is lots of experts contributing to the same article. This means Wiki might be more inconsistent, but it should be more objective.

[lionsiy]

Knol is going to be VERY usefull as quotable source because you get background info about the author. I see a lot of students already rubbing their hands.

[grudabor]

I think there's a subtle difference between knol and wikipedia. Knol is more about 1 expert writing an article about a particular subject, whereas wikipedia is lots of experts contributing to the same article. This means Wiki might be more inconsistent, but it should be more objective.

I always thought that Wikipedia consisted of alot of random Joe´s contributing to some article.

[taesrom]

I always thought that Wikipedia consisted of alot of random Joe´s contributing to some article.

True, but most of the time the real experts will edit out all the crap and keep a particular topic in good shape.

[nitivearchit]

The answer is in: no

It got canned.