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

[Steven Walling]

Very good question. I'd say two major factors:
1. Support from scientists. Founded by one of the best-known scientists
alive, the EOL automatically gained support from the biological sciences in
academia. Support from the scientific/academic community is the only reason
their largely single-author system has flourished in my opinion.

2. They have way more photos because they accept non-commercial licenses.
That alone garners way more possible submissions, since the vast majority of
CC work on Flickr is doesn't allow commercial use. (At least that's the way
it was the last time I looked at a breakdown.)

Steven Walling

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:11 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
>
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