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

[Nemo_bis]

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