This gives some context: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/83
Michel Vuijlsteke
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Still seems to be either slow or down completely.
"...our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth."? Isn't quite uncontroversial among scientific circles to note that we haven't even documented a large part of life on earth, much less enough to write encyclopedia articles on each and every species? Seems a little bit of an overblown goal.
Considering that "The immense amount of information in the encyclopedia is being drawn from a variety of sources, including several existing specialist databases such as AmphibiaWeb and FishBase.", it seems to me they are just taking advantage of other people's hard work rather than building their own encyclopedia.
As for, "The project will solicit the help of users to submit photos and information for assessment by an authentication team.", sounds just like the reason Nupedia failed and why Citizendium doesn't even have an article on everyday species such as sheep.
I just don't generally see why this would be engaging as a resource or as a participatory endeavor, personally.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
And it's... down again. I didn't know we could slashdot a site by mentioning it on wikien-l...
Magnus
fond memories from 2002-2003 :-)
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