{"id":12,"date":"2008-07-24T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/2008\/07\/24\/knol-wikipediaing-for-money\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:43:51","slug":"knol-wikipediaing-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/2008\/07\/24\/knol-wikipediaing-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Knol: Wikipediaing for Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google launched <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k#\">Knol<\/a>, a new collaborative encyclopedia project. At Knol, small teams of authors write articles together.  They can monetize the work through AdSense rev-sharing and retain full control to pre-approve any changes submitted by other users.  Knol is being presented as Google&#8217;s Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/23\/googles-knol-the-monetizable-wikipedia\/\">competitor <\/a>, a show of Google&#8217;s continued entry into the content provider space. <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s something else I find fascinating about this project&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Knol gives us an opportunity to conduct a fabulous experiment.  It pits Wikipedia, an open, voluntary encyclopedia project against one where contributors are paid and retain full control over their entries. It&#8217;s the market model vs. open, peer production. <\/p>\n<p>Which model of knowledge production will be most successful? For years, we&#8217;ve marveled at the amount of time and participation that Wikipedia generates. But we&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to examine how a similar project might fare if all contributors were paid.  Knol might give us a glimpse into this alternative world.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll get a chance to see who participates, why they participate, and what&#8217;s ultimately produced.  <\/p>\n<p>If the homo economicus model accurately describes human behavior, Knol should be poised to generate more and better content <\/p>\n<p>But I have my doubts. Lets see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google launched Knol, a new collaborative encyclopedia project. At Knol, small teams of authors write articles together. They can monetize the work through AdSense rev-sharing and retain full control to pre-approve any changes submitted by other users. Knol is being presented as Google&#8217;s Wikipedia competitor , a show of Google&#8217;s continued entry into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2763,2764,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooperation","category-open-business-models","category-peer-production"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediascrums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}