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different than http://species.wikimedia.org? - Andrew Su

Very different from http://species.wikimedia.org. Built on Semantic Mediawiki, massive pre-population with data, will also have articles, journals, and people. - Roderic Page

Looks great, and I like the SMW angle. Just as an FYI, we did an analysis a while back comparing usage of the Gene Wiki (integrated in Wikipedia) versus other stand-alone gene-centric wikis. http://bit.ly/4sL0c I don't think we did anything any inherently any better than the other efforts, but there's something to be said about planting a seed in a preexisting critical mass of users. However, the differential may be less apparent with WikiSpecies. Anyway, looks great, good luck! - Andrew Su

I take your point, and the sociology of stand alone wikis is a bit worrying. Indeed, I think Wikispecies exemplifies this -- the corresponding pages in Wikipedia tend to be far more useful. Given that I'm using SMW I've no choice but to "go it alone". - Roderic Page

Did you consider Wikia? They host SMW instances (though arguable how much of a relevant critical mass one would gain there). I've been batting around a Semantic Gene Wiki in my head, and presumably you're months ahead of me as far as considering various options... - Andrew Su

I'm hosting it here partly because I want to be able to install various extensions, hack the underlying code, and query the underlying database. It's a work in progress, and hosting it remotely at this stage would drive me nuts. - Roderic Page

I noticed you're using images from Yahoo and flickr. Perhaps you're interested in the work some people have been doing on sticking Morphbank images on PhyloWidget trees at the DB hackathon at nescent: https://www.nescent.org/wg_evoi... - Rutger Vos

I'll take a look at adding this (pity they don't serve JSON). The code example seems broken. I tried this URL http://services.morphbank.net/mbd... based on the code and got an error, whereas this worked: http://services.morphbank.net/mbd... - Roderic Page