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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.
So this is like Wikipedia but only those who are "scientists" are allowed to contribute? Since there are "scientists" who believe the earth is flat I fail to see how this is better then Wikipedia. In fact it sounds like an elitist club for professors, it doesn't mean their information is going to be more accurate.
O...kay. And you do know that evolution is still basically just a theory at this point right? Not, you know, something that has actually been proven. Yeah, just something to keep in mind while you're jerking off to Origin of Species for the thousandth time.