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.

an unfortunate domainname

[wereHamster]

eol.org, all I can see in it is 'end of life'

Re:Wikipedia, anyone?

[Rakshasa Taisab]

Wouldn't it be better if citizen-scientists concentrated in improving and expanding wikipedia articles on animals?

Because the elephant population has, in fact, _NOT_ tripled the past few years.

Re:an unfortunate domainname

[traveller.ct]

For a moment I actually read that as "end of line".org. Maybe I should go get a life?

Re:Badly designed...

[Anonymous Coward]

I see...
NERD RAAAAAGE!