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Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that the Encyclopedia of Life opened up to the public today with its first 30,000 pages in place — and, according to the AP, promptly crumbled even before being Slashdotted. (The site seems fine now.) We discussed this project last year when it was announced. The Telegraph has an overview of the launch, and reports that only 25 "exemplar" pages on the site are fully fleshed out to the extent scientists hope eventually to attain for all species; the other few tens of thousands are expanded placeholders. The project hopes to begin taking input from citizen-scientists late this year.
Yet you fail to answer my question!
How is the value of this type of data collection by authentication any better then Wikipedia? If the guy authenticating the material is of the "flat earth theory" then it's WORSE then Wikipedia because people will just assume it's correct knowledge since it has been "authenticated".
If you're going to response at least:
1) Read what I said
2) Answer my question instead of making me look like a fucking troll