I would really like WikiSpecies to improve their visibility in the community. Sadly enough, the interwiki-links from Wikispecies to other projects are already insufficient. Given that we have all those tax-box-templates I always think that it should be an easy task to write bots to make links between the projects. I would also like to see folks from WikiSpecies to present their projects on SignPost and Wikimania.
Ting Steven Walling wrote: > Very good question. I'd say two major factors: > 1. Support from scientists. Founded by one of the best-known scientists > alive, the EOL automatically gained support from the biological sciences in > academia. Support from the scientific/academic community is the only reason > their largely single-author system has flourished in my opinion. > > 2. They have way more photos because they accept non-commercial licenses. > That alone garners way more possible submissions, since the vast majority of > CC work on Flickr is doesn't allow commercial use. (At least that's the way > it was the last time I looked at a breakdown.) > > Steven Walling > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Nemo_bis <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> See >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/21/encyclopedia-life-species >> Where's the problem with Wikispecies? >> Moreover, EOL received 33.000 images from individual contributors >> (http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life), Wikispecies didn't. >> So, why is EOL succeeding, and Wikispecies seemingly doesn't? >> Is it useful to have two overlapping projects like these? >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
