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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Although I have no idea how the Encyclopedia of Life will ensure the accuracy of entries, the Encyclopedia of Life was launched. I believe it has an outstanding chance of "evolving" over the years to come.
Here is a direct link to Encyclopedia of Life site- http://www.eol.org/ Quote:
Many thanks to those who provided the 25 million dollars of "seed" money for this project. I believe this site is well on its way to becoming an invaluable resource. |
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Carbon
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY USA
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The evolution of EoL will probably be slow, at first. I believe they recruit experts to do entries, so it is not like Wikipedia, where any schmo can add whatever they want to an article. I like the EoL will be moderated by certified? experts.
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Yes, Wikipedia has its limitations. That's for sure. I'm one of those schmos who has gone in and edited a few entries and added citations because that whole set up is somewhat of a free for all. Some of the entries I edited must have been created by people smoking whacky tobacky.
So far, I'm seeing no entries like that at EoL so they're doing something very right over there. |
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Big Fat juicy WORM
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
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Agreed, I too am one of the schmos who's done some editing at Wiki.....and you're right Lorax.......some of them folks are flat "strange". LOL
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Carbon
Join Date: Nov 2008
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We use the encyclopedia of life at school. It is very cool.
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Yep. I am a wiki schmo also.
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Grub
Join Date: Dec 2008
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What is the difference between www.discoverlife.org and www.eol.org? Perhaps 2 revered Harvard professors are in a friendly competition; EOL has Edward O. Wilson as their honorary head; Discover Life has Ernst Mayr. In Wilson's autobiography The Naturalist he wryly relates different faculty rivalries at Harvard. He wrote that such rivalry was understandable since money for independent research is always tight.
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/issue/printout/12
eol Quote:
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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![]() ![]() And thanks, Lorax, for the eol info. Looks great. I've been on Flickr for quite a while but I just joined EoL's Flickr group so maybe some of my photos will be seen there next year. ![]() http://www.flickr.com/photos/vickispix/ |
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I knew it! It's you! It is you! You are the person who has the photo of the baby squirrels at the top of that one forum! You are reeeeeeeeeealy good.
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"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist |
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