Re: Knolicules

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Kev,

It's impossible to tell how much things will change after
the initial wrinkles are ironed out in the beta testing,
but off-the-cuff I would venture these observations:

Overall, it's a return to modes of working that have longtemps worked well:

1.  Lead author takes ultimate responsibility for the content of articles.
2.  Pluralism about perspectives instead of pseudo-neutrality (WP:NPOV).
3.  Voluntary collaboration, not forced labor toward pseudo-consensus.
4.  Respect for the sources of knowledge in experience and training.
5.  Quarter given to creative, falsifiable, and risky hypotheses,
    along with allowances for synthetic reasoning, instead of
    rigid fixation on monolithic, naive objectivism (WP:NOR).

Those appear to be the most salient philosophical diffs --
I'll remark on the more obvious practical diffs later on.

Jon

Kevin B. Cohen wrote:
> 
> Jon,
>
> do you have a feel for how Knol is meant
> to be similar to/different from Wikipedia?
> 
> Kev
>
> K.B. Cohen
> Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer,
> The MITRE Corporation,
> Human Language Technology Division
> and
> Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead,
> Center for Computational Pharmacology
> http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen

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