Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of sociology announced their measure Knol project, where users can submit equipage on different subjects and share in the AdSense revenue from the article pages, he didn't mention "Wikipedia," but basically everyone else did who blogged about it. Here's what I think will happen, if Knol is implemented proper to the plan: Even though it won't technically be a "Wikipedia fork," it will quickly become equivalent to one, with a "gold rush" of users copying content from Wikipedia to Knol trappings hoping for a piece of the AdSense dollars. But I submit this will be a good thing, especially if bona fide experts in different fields join the gold rush as well and start signing their names to furnishings that they've vetted."

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