The "Did you know?" Knol

Google employees manning the "Knol Help" role will occasionally update this knol, to manage the list of links which appear under the "Did you know?" section of the Knol home page.

Updating the "Did you know?" links

To update the list of Did You Know links, simply edit the "References" section of the page.

To add "Did you know?" pages for other languages, simply create and populate the References section for localized versions of this knol, for example "http://knol.google.com/k/knol/knol/DidYouKnow_ar" for the Arabic equivalent of "Did you know?"

"Did you know?" links are shown a random every time the home page renders. The text content of the reference will appear as a hyperlink on the knol.google.com home page prefixed by "Did you know? ", so keep it brief and and clean.

Procedure to create a localized version of Did You Know

We can create a language specific instance of the Did You Know page, by having a Knol Administrator issue the following request.

http://knol.google.com/k/knol/system/services/createKnol?webspace=knol&path=knol.DidYouKnow_<lang>

In place of of <lang> use the language ID, for example "es" for Spanish, "ar" for Arabic.

Then, we can populate the DidYouKnow page as follows:
  1. Translate the title, summary, and content text into the target language. A quick-and-dirty translation is possible using http:://translate.google.com, but a native speaker will need to clean up the resulting page.
  2. Invite any translators working on the new Help page as co-authors.
  3. For each reference link in the English DidYouKnow page:
    1. Cut the URL it points to, and page it into your browser.  For example, the Reference link for the question "You can ask other authors to review your knols" points here: http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/reviews/si57lahl1w25/9
    2. Look to see whether the corresponding target language help page exists by adding _<lang> to the URL. For example, to access the Spanish version of the above page, use: http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/reviews/si57lahl1w25/9_es, In many cases we do not have localized versions of help documents available yet.
    3. If the localized help page does not exist, ask a Knol administrator (knolhelp@gmail.com) to create a placeholder for the help page. It is important that you do not just make up a new URL at random for help pages -- Knol Help pages need specific URLs. Then translate the help page, pasting the results into the required URL
    4. Once the localized help page does exist, add a reference in the DidYouKnow_<lang> page. Have the reference's URL point to the localized document, and translate the text of the link into the target language. I

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Comments


Patrice Bouyrat

DidYou Know in french please

Hi,

Could you please create the DidYouKnow in french? Rightnow I'm updating french document and adding somes useful video and screenshot.
I would be glad to update theses links following your instructions if it appears on the home page.

Regards

Last edited Jul 20, 2009 4:31 AM
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Visitors page, authors page

I feel there is a need to create separate home pages for visitors and knol authors. For authors knoller.google.com could be appropriate similar to blogger.

Now that knol is being displayed on google main search inviting authors, sending them to knoller.google.com a page meant for landing of interested authors would be appropriate.

The visitors page "do you know" will contain knol help pages that help visitors views the knols and interact with the authors and platform.

I feel the blog search of google can be extended to search knols also. Both are searching user generated content.

Last edited Jan 31, 2009 7:47 AM
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Jesús Martín Calvo

Hi Knol Help!

Sorry I can't get how to make a "did you know?" knol in Spanish. I don't know why to use the references section instead of writting simple text. Does appear in the home page these "did you know?"? I would be glad to do it following your instructions if it appears in the home page, otherwise I would translate and if I can I'll add more content in Spanish, but as simple text in a new knol.

Anyway I think some of these "did you know" would be very interesting to place them in the main page or in the lateral as a box, to encourage people to learn more about Knol. Recently I translated "embedding objects into a knol" and I think these features are very bad known among authors, at least in Spanish.

Any further idea for me to help?

Regards


Last edited Dec 29, 2008 7:52 PM
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K, Molto PhD

New to Knol

Do you have a page (or is this the one) where you can learn all the basics of how to best use this site? How do people know you even have a knol page? Does one Email friends? I can't seem to upload any more photo's from my computer except for the one in my profile. How can I add pictures? How do you decide what to put on the What's new page? I would like to add that this site is wonderful including the added page with Quotes for the day etc. Thank you for your time and this site. K. Molto, PhD

Last edited Nov 23, 2008 2:26 PM
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