Haha, yes. And we certainly seem to be cutting out those who don't wish to identify.
God bless, Bob On 4/10/2011 2:44 PM, geni wrote: > On 8 April 2011 23:07, Bob the Wikipedian<bobthewikiped...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life. >> Here's how that site works: >> *Experts write articles (similar to the original Nupedia, only they >> dint' give up after nine articles) >> *Articles that are lacking are temporarily imported from Wikipedia >> *Wikipedia articles which are reviewed and approved by experts become >> permanent content >> *Taxonomic data is imported from various databases, including WORMS, >> ITIS, and various other trusted names. >> *The public (supposedly) may contribute information (though I've not >> figured out how yet) >> *The public may contribute tagged freely licensed photos to the wiki by >> uploading them to the EOL's Flickr photostream where a bot adds them >> regularly. >> >> On the surface, EOL looks like it's doing quite well and has a lot of >> useful information and photos, and I even use it sometimes for research >> when Wikipedia doesn't satisfy my hunger :-[ . But if you ask me, >> they've made it too difficult to learn to contribute, barring out >> potential editors like myself. >> >> God bless, >> Bob > > Thing is their business model appears to be to start with $50 million > of funding and proceed to hire whoever you need to write your > encyclopedia. > > Admittedly given the foundation's spending plans of late it appears > the WMF is interested the same model. > > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
