Re: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

2009-08-25 Thread geni
2009/8/25 : > So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became > successful ? $10 million of backing for the most part. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

2009-08-25 Thread Isabell Long
2009/8/25 : > 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 sear

Re: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

2009-08-25 Thread wjhonson
So what was so special about this wiki or pseudo-wiki that it became successful ? -Original Message- From: Keith Old To: English Wikipedia Sent: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 2:00 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species G'day folks, Phys Org re

Re: [WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

2009-08-25 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Keith Old schreef: > Phys Org reports that the Online Encyclopedia of Life has reached 150,000 > species. Impressive number. There are 128,000 articles on WP with a Taxobox template; this includes species, but also families, genera, and other ranks. Eugene __

[WikiEN-l] Online encyclopedia of life reaches 150,000 species

2009-08-25 Thread Keith Old
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 e