Actually, from the point of view of the character information and such: this
is already underway in MorphoBank:
http://www.morphobank.org/index.php?g=search&s=browse&ss=overview
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661
Faculty Director, Earth, Life & Time Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite/
Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843
Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Department of Geology
Building 237, Room 1117
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
> On Behalf Of Saint Abyssal
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:34 PM
> To: villesink@gmail.com
> Cc: Dinosaur Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Idea for an "Open Dinosaur Project"-like
> Wikimedia Project
>
> > From: Ville Sinkkonen <villesink@gmail.com>
>
>
> > I would like to point out that there
> > is such a project that has been
> > in the works for a while, and that is the Palaeos wiki.
> > The
> > unfortunate this is that there's only few regular
> contributors so the
> > transition of the Palaeos website into wiki format has been rather
> > slow.
> >
> >
> > Ville
>
> The ideas are similar, but Palaeos differs from my idea by
> being smaller in scope (only paleontology, especially
> phylogenetics) and it's a bit more encyclopedia that what I'm
> going for; Palaeos has similar information but lack
> collections of data, measurements and the like.
>
> ~ Abyssal
>
>
>