[WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

[wjhonson at aol.com]

So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became 
successful ?




-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 2:00 pm
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species










G'day folks,
Phys Org reports that the Online Encyclopedia of Life has reached 
150,000
species.

http://www.physorg.com/news170396645.html

"The Encyclopedia of Life, an online project launched in 2007 with the 
aim
of creating a webpage on every known animal and plant species, has 
reached
150,000 entries in its second year.
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In a statement marking the anniversary, the collaborative project said 
close
to two million people from more than 200 countries had contributed to 
the
website (www.eol.org).

Users can create a page that describes a plant or animal with text, 
images
or both. The information is then submitted to experts, verified and made
available for free.

The project's creators hope to accumulate a page for every 1.8 million
animal and plant species <http://www.physorg.com/tags/plant+species/> 
known
to scientists over 10 years."


More in article.


This would compare well with Wikipedia's progress over a similar period.


Regards



Keith
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