[Taxacom] progress on globalnames.org

[Roderic Page]

Am I the only horrified by this timescale?

On 12 May 2009, at 16:45, David Patterson wrote:

>
> Expectation management:  How long before this all operational? Best  
> to think
> decadally.
>

Why can't we have this sooner? Like, *cough*, now? Is it crazy to  
suggest that if all these names were dumped in a wiki, together with  
annotations (e.g., links to literature), any our community set about  
adding/annotating/cleaning, we could have this done rather sooner...?

Rod



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