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. * * *
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 *
So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became successful ?
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Old keithold@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@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. * * *
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 * _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
2009/8/25 wjhonson@aol.com:
So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became successful ?
The Online Encyclopedia of Life? No idea, I'd never heard of it until I looked it up after reading this email! Maybe that's me not looking further than Wikipedia for most things?! I do Google search most of the time and have never come across this Encyclopedia of Life. At least we know it exists now!
2009/8/25 wjhonson@aol.com:
So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became successful ?
$10 million of backing for the most part.