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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

lol I don’t have much to say about “grokipedia” except it joins a long tradition of wikipedia derivatives that ultimately extend wikipedia's influence beyond its own site, and I did laugh at how "depths of wikipedia" is a word for word copy except that one word

apparently Knol’s founder was inspired to launch an ambitious encyclopedialike entity bc he felt online sources , such as Wikipedia, lacked info about —of all things — New Yorker cartoonists. then the New Yorker licensed cartoons for knol articles web.archive.org/web/20080730...

As someone who is still salty that Wikipedia doesn't have a Kid Radd article this actually makes perfect sense to me

Peter Arno has a solid Wikipedia article now. The Knol guy could've saved a lot of effort by just learning how to edit Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A...

I completely forgot about this…

so much stuff happens! I had forgotten that sean spicer pretended covfefe was a real word (“the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant”) until yesterday!