[Foundation-l] Why can't we have $12.5 million for Wikispecies?

[Andrew Leung]

I don't mind repeating again. EOL boasts to have large amount of images, but do you know that according to some of EOL's partner projects, EOL has not handled any data submitted by its partners for over a year ago? Yes, they do have lots and lots of images but many are simply sitting in a hard drive waiting for the page to be created so the images can be incorporated.

We're an active community, making progress and edging towards 200,000 articles very soon. What we need is not a proposal for deleting this project, but more publicity and contributors.

P.S. We're constantly looking for bot owners to retrieve data from various databases and create articles automatically (e.g. http://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&target=MonoBot)

Andrew

"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."




> From: Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:48:45 -0600
> To: nemowiki at gmail.com; foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Why can't we have $12.5 million for Wikispecies?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nemo_bis <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > See
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/21/encyclopedia-life-species
> > Where's the problem with Wikispecies?
> > Moreover, EOL received 33.000 images from individual contributors
> > (http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life), Wikispecies didn't.
> > So, why is EOL succeeding, and Wikispecies seemingly doesn't?
> > Is it useful to have two overlapping projects like these?
> >
> > Nemo
> >
> >
> Encyclopedia of life has a much larger vision that WikiSpecies. They
> envision a day when autonomous robots scour the earth, collecting and
> documenting specimens, including full genome scans, for all creatures that
> remain, uploading the data to the encyclopedia automatically. And they plan
> to be part of making that happen. Having such an inspiring vision guiding
> your project is essential for success over competing projects. Additionally,
> EOL has entered the public consciousness, its most recent jumpstart being a
> Ted wish.  That wish means that some of the worlds leading thinkers are
> aware of EOL, and some of the worlds biggest funders as well.
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