Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Leung
a facelift, showing a featured species (with image) and a slideshow of images. Any more ideas? Andrew "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up." > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:46:36 -0400 > From: meta...@gmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Leung
> Wikispecies will have a niche if it can prove to be regularly on the > leading edge. > > Has there been any discussions about putting newly described species > onto the front page? If the information is made accessible, Wikinews > editors could write up stories about new discoveries. Too many

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-27 Thread Samuel Klein
Andrew, This is a great response and anecdote. I have regularly run across people working on EOL, which has a broad staff one of whose tasks is to keep an eye on species-data resources around the web; and they are generally quite positive about wikispecies, and thinking about ways to better colla

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Andrew Leung wrote: >.. > We often get compared between Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), so I grabbed a > correspondence with someone who shares data to both EOL and Wikispecies > (permission already granted beforehand by these 2 individuals on quoting this > email).

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When people put forward their opinion that a project is of low or no quality, there is no reason at all to hold back. The only thing that you may hope for is that the person expressing this opinion is honest. That is the good faith that you have to assume. There is no reason at all, to hold ba

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Leung
Opps, used wrong subject line. So here's what I said about Wikispecies. > From: andrewcle...@hotmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:49:36 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Raw data of 2009 Board election ballots > > > Full disclaimer: I contribute in Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread teun spaans
Dear Klaus, You refer to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Wikispecies, which refers to Wikispecies:Village pump/Archive 24092005, a page which has been deleted. The discussion on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/11._September_2006#Wikispecies_.28gel.C3.B6scht.2

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread Al Tally
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Klaus Graf wrote: > I cannot understand why WMF is unable to terminate Wikispecies which > is a zero quality project. See > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Wikispecies (also in English) > > Klaus Graf > Propose it be closed at Meta then. -- Alex (Us

[Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread Klaus Graf
I cannot understand why WMF is unable to terminate Wikispecies which is a zero quality project. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Wikispecies (also in English) Klaus Graf ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub