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The correct name is "Encyclopedia of Life" (EOL) not "The Encyclopedia of Life". BirdHunters 12:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the article from "The Encyclopedia of Life" back to the correct name "Encyclopedia of Life" (EOL) the word "THE" goes in the first sentence of the article not in the article's name. BirdHunters 12:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History deletion GFDL violation.

Can someone please fix the edit history which was deleted with the copy pastes/moves? It is a violation of the GFDL to remove valid history diffs and its list of contributors. -- Jeandré, 2007-05-11t22:34z

What's their copyright policy?

Does anyone know what this group's copyright policy is going to be? There site doesn't list anything, and a Google search within the site doesn't seem to be much help either. --Ybbor ^Talk 12:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"A possible area of obstacles or dangers is intellectual property. The Encyclopedia will be very generous with credit and recognition, and we will soon be posting a general statement of principle about open and accessible content, encouraging sharing, and so on." - http://www.eol.org/faqs.html#faq1.6

-- Jeandré, 2007-05-14t17:54z

This is an old thread but I might as well put up the link to EOL policy http://eol.org/files/pdfs/docs/EOL_Licensing_Policy.pdf. Bottom line is that everything should be usable on Wikipedia, with attribution. Csparr (talk) 23:09, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incompatible licenses they use include CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, and CC-BY-NC-SA [1]. -- Jeandré (talk), 2009-12-19t07:28z

Canadian or US-Dollars?

"The estimated cost will be 110.5 million dollars [12]" This information is taken from a Canadian source. 1 US-Dollar ~ 1,105 Canadian Dollars, so maybe it's just the 100 million US-Dollars multiplied by 1,105 and not a new information at all... --84.134.84.66 00:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"All known species..."

Does this include PAST creatures as well? Dinosaurs and alike? -G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.132.86 (talk • contribs) 2007-06-23tT04:40:54z

"The initial focus will be on animals and plants, then later fungi and microbes, and finally extinct species."--43.244.133.36 02:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

EOL: "I revert this IP because this IP was already reverted earlier"

Hello,
Yes, I was reverted earlier : here, which seem to have done a mistake on his revert.

Then you reverted my edit on Encyclopedia of Life. My sources come from the respecting websites and are not hard to check : you can first look on the wikipedia entries Wikispecies, Encyclopedia of Life, and on the respectives websites.

A better question is : where should go this table ? I think this table should go in an article "Web encyclopedy of life projects", listing the current main projects, ans their respectives fearture. I'm not an english speaker, so I don't dare choice a name for this.

Your help is welcome. 140.122.97.4 (talk) 08:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concurence whith other "Tree of Life" project

Talking about web project expected to describe the sum of all species, we can notice :

List of "Tree of Life" web projects
Project	launch by	Year, technology, and license	Comment
Wikispedies	Wikimedia Foundation (which also run Wikipedia)	2003, open wiki, free license.	hundred thousand of articles accessible.
Tolweb.org^[1]	The University of Arizona College of Agricultureand Life Sciences and The University of Arizona Library	Copyrighted	Professional and 9000 articles accessible.
Encyclopedia of Life	???	2007/2008, wiki (collaboration Expert & volunters), free license	12.5 million starting budget, more expected, 10 years project, 3 articles currently accessible.

They have been speculations about concurrence between these web projects, but we can notice than Erik Möller, working for the Wikimedia Foundation represent it to the EOL's meetings to help to provide a free Encyclopedy of Life and to choice the appropriate free license^[2].—Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.135.4.212 (talk) March 10 2008

References

^ see: http://www.tolweb.org
^ see : this article, comment n'22, May 13th, 2007 at 10:15 am : "The Wikimedia Foundation is represented in EOL’s Institutional Council; I am the representative and attended the recent launch meeting. We do not view the projects as being in competition at all; both aim to contribute to a commons of knowledge. We are exploring licensing options and tools that will allow both projects to interoperate and share content."

The EOL content is licensed with creative commons: Can it be copied into WP? If so how to meet the attribution and share-alike requirements?

EOL is mostly licensed with Creative Commons 3.0 (attribution share-alike). If that is the case, can content be copied into Wikipedia? If that is done, how can the attribution and share-alike notices be made? Nesbit (talk) 03:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, can GFDL Wikipedia content be copied into the EOL? Or only dual-licensed CC Wikipedia content? -kslays 17:44, 27 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kslays (talk • contribs)

(These questions are unrelated to the article, and so should probably be asked at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) instead (they'll get more attention there too). See also the mailing list thread at The WikiEN-l Archives (starting here). Let us know where you ask, or what you find out, as I'd be interested too. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Currently at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 37#Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). -- Quiddity (talk) 08:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incompatible licenses they use include CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, and CC-BY-NC-SA [2]. -- Jeandré (talk), 2009-12-19t07:28z

Is it correct that CC-licensed EOL content may be copied verbatim into Wikipedia now that it is also CC licensed? Actually, I'll get ask at the Village Pump and come back here with a confirmation. -kslays (talk • contribs) 19:45, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like all CC-BY and CC-BY-SA content is allowed, and may be copied word for word, providing {{Template:EOL}} is used to satisfy attribution. Anything Non-Commercial (NC) cannot be copied into Wikipedia. So, editors, feel free to cut, paste, and integrate! -kslays (talk • contribs) 23:49, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This website is not active anymore.

Consider changing the information or deleting the article altogether? The wayback machine still has some saved copies, but otherwise this is totally archaic. 2001:1970:48A7:CD00:1D6C:692A:21D7:D0E8 (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some articles exist normally, but most require the wayback machine to access. Should this be mentioned in the article? Beargoesshid (talk) 23:30, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

strange text on older versions

When I use the WayBack Machine to look at older versions, I just see the text "fear". anybody know what that's about, and could you add it to the page? Malkwicler2 (talk) 21:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] see: http://www.tolweb.org

[2] see : this article, comment n'22, May 13th, 2007 at 10:15 am : "The Wikimedia Foundation is represented in EOL’s Institutional Council; I am the representative and attended the recent launch meeting. We do not view the projects as being in competition at all; both aim to contribute to a commons of knowledge. We are exploring licensing options and tools that will allow both projects to interoperate and share content."

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