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This is an open-collaboration knol allows everybody to share ideas and suggestions to improve Knol Site and promote Knol...Views: 2000Comments: 87Accepted: Jul 19, 2009 8:46 PM
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Google's metrics silently record statistics on page views, stars, comments, surveys and reviews. Google's tools enable us ...Views: 6000Comments: 255Accepted: May 14, 2009 8:41 PM - 3.
This article is an open letter to the Google Knol Team. Its primary purpose is to highlight personal opinions about possib...Views: 800Comments: 11Accepted: May 14, 2009 11:41 AM - 4.
We believe in "a unit of knowledge." Knol can realize its potential as a great storehouse of credible information for...Views: 3000Comments: 50Accepted: May 14, 2009 11:41 AM - 5.
Discusses the problems of spam and plagiarism on the Google Knol service with particular reference to content copied from...Views: 4000Comments: 12Accepted: May 14, 2009 11:39 AM - 6.
Four times a year, we compile Top Pick Knol Authors into our Who's Who Gallery. The collective work of these authors is th...Views: 2000Comments: 72Accepted: May 14, 2009 8:41 PM - 7.
Why do 85% of our Knols rank ‘Top 10’ by search engines? Here are the lessons we've learned: 1. Write for reader...Views: 4000Comments: 77Accepted: May 14, 2009 9:16 PM
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Murry Shohat
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Grassroots are getting worried. Need some feeding
Thanks for your many votes above. We've worked hard and it's nice see our work collected like this.
My writing team -- Peter Baskerville, Krishan Maggon and myself -- are total champs of the Knol mission. Of late, we've developed collective strategic and tactical concern with the platform. I think your Knol is the perfect place to air these concerns:
1 - Unwarranted weighting given to moderated collections in the rankings. You might peruse the new episode we just published in http://knol.google.c
2 - Collections should not compete with original authors for rankings - they need their own separate competition and collections should not count towards authorship status. If it gets out that collections earn authorial badges, expect gaming of the system. Please create a Top Pick Collection Award and Top Viewed Collection award, restoring Top Pick Author and Knol. On the awards page, we'd also like to see Top Pick listed ahead of Top View.
If you do this, we will help with observations about the new algorithms for collections. For example, no collection should earn top pick unless some of its Knols are top picks.
3 - The need to 'hard wire' translations so the original author maintains moral and visual ownership over translated works. Each of us would love to be translated, but only under our byline. Darryl Dipstick should not be able to claim authorship of any of our work just because he knows how to use Google Translate. However, if Darryl is genuinely skilled in another language and wishes to translate in exchange for collaboration credit, we are happy to cooperate.
4 - the need for a Knol 'top pick' algorithm that is not so weighted towards inactive long serving authors with just a few high ranking knols and essentially non-responsive habits on comments. Day to day Knol support should earn some algorithm juice. Dance more with the ones who stick by you.
5 - the ability for known & respected authors to flag an entire new author's work where it is seen as heavily commercial or plagiarized. We need a one-stop button on the new author's home page that also captures the flagger's details for credibility reasons. I guess this is a trust issue. Now that each of us is a year into this with clear bona fides, we think you can trust us.
Finally -- and I apologize for the length of this full comment from our trio -- we understand completely that Google provides structure while users regulate behavior. We are only asking for structural features that allow us to work more efficiently.
Our gratitude for your consideration,