Re: [WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia of Life passes 1 million pages

2012-05-26 Thread Tony Sidaway
I was tempted enough to join this site, but actually producing
anything is difficult. It reminds me of h2g2.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia of Life passes 1 million pages

2012-05-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 May 2012 21:02, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was tempted enough to join this site, but actually producing
 anything is difficult. It reminds me of h2g2.


Do tell, please write up the process in detail.


- d.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia of Life passes 1 million pages

2012-05-26 Thread Tony Sidaway
On 26 May 2012 21:07, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 26 May 2012 21:02, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was tempted enough to join this site, but actually producing
 anything is difficult. It reminds me of h2g2.


 Do tell, please write up the process in detail.


Well, exactly. I went to the site, noticed that the article
bandicoot comprised a poor picture of some bandicoots, and joined
expecting to splurge in some CC stuff from the Wikipedia article.
First I had to join (most people wouldn't bother). Second, I now
realise that I can't just splurge some stuff into a predefined format.
There is some lovely taxonomic stuff on the Wikipedia article, but it
would take me ages to figure out how to transfer it to eol. And the
WIkipedia version would _still_ be the most authoritative, so why
bother?

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