[Taxacom] Biodiversity Informatics on wikipedia - contributions welcome

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

It's true! I guess someone else can fix my omission, maybe... - I tend not to look at Wikispecies myself very much, finding it a bit "bare bones" for many purposes... also not a true database (methinks) although aspiring to some of the same goals.

Regards - Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Thorpe [mailto:s.thorpe at auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 4:33 PM
To: Rees, Tony (CMAR, Hobart)
Cc: rogerhyam at mac.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Biodiversity Informatics on wikipedia - contributions welcome

Tony,
Is it just me, or have you just managed to write a whole lot on  
Wikipedia about taxonomic databases without even a mention of  
Wikipedia's somewhat relevant sister project, Wikispecies????
Cheers,
Stephen

Quoting Tony.Rees at csiro.au:

> Dear all, (and Roger),
>
> As a "Biodiversity Informatics" and biological data management  
> person myself, I have been somewhat underwhelmed by the treatment of  
> this topic to date on Wikipedia (basically almost nothing on the  
> designated page, plus a competing page "Biodiversity Information"  
> that said even less), so I have made a start at restructuring the  
> relevant page: you can see my efforts at
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Informatics
>
> As stated above it is just a start, plenty more to do, so anyone  
> interested is welcome to pitch in. There is also a page for comments  
> and general discussion at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Biodiversity_Informatics
>
> I decided it might also be helpful to create an associated page for  
> taxonomic databases, now done, see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_database
>
> Happy wikitinkering/wikiimproving,
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees
> Manager, Divisional Data Centre,
> CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research,
> GPO Box 1538,
> Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
> Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318)
> Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000)
> e-mail: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
> Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/
> Biodiversity informatics research activities:  
> http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm
> Personal  
> info: http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
>
>
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