... reporter for a science mag wants some examples (aside from the Gene Wiki, of course). Already pointed him to Jean-Claude's ONS efforts. Others? - Andrew Su

Would you count the ornithology efforts at Cornell (e-bird) - Deepak Singh

Undergrad-sourcing: http://dx.doi.org/10... - Eric Jain

Don't know if anyone is using Amazon's "Mechanical Turk"? This is a more controlled approach to "crowdsourcing". Have considered using this for outsourcing base calling... - Eric Jain

Eric ... Mech Turk works great for any number of problems, but do you think you'll get the appropriate people for that for something like base calling? Would be an interesting experiment - Deepak Singh

Don't need a PhD in order to figure out whether the red peak or the green peak is higher :-) On the other hand only non-trivial cases need to be done manually and there a bit of practice is beneficial. Don't know if the Amazon setup allows you to give people a few training tasks first? In any case, could be a fun thing to try! - Eric Jain

Should look into it. Sit right next to someone from the team - Deepak Singh

@Deepak: Guess I'll have to invite you over now :-) - Eric Jain

I recall seeing a project where somebody used MechTurk for large scale image annotation, but these guys from MIT who made a game out of the process obviously do much better. I'm not only sure if that's a crowdsourcing. FoldIt should qualify, probably Synaptic Leap and ShareScienceIdeas (Noel Harem's wiki) as well. - Pawel Szczesny

Eric ... lol .. if only I had known earlier - Deepak Singh

foldit http://fold.it/portal/ and Galaxy Zoo http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ - Enro

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ as well - Daniel Swan

I would say all of science is crowd sourced. When taken as a whole, science progresses with the will of the crowd. 'Crowd Sourcing' the buzzword is merely an exerted effort in trying to get people to solve a specific problem as opposed to letting nature take it's course. - Paul J. Davis

I like the recursive nature of crowdsourcing an answer to a question about crowdsourcing... - Daniel Swan

Daniel, I *think* I understand what you mean by "the recursive nature of crowdsourcing" (what I refer to a positive feedback loop between utility, users, and contributors), but care to clarify? Thanks all for the pointers... - Andrew Su

I thought Daniel meant that you were using a crowd to answer this particular crowdsourcing question, yes? :) - Allyson Lister

Andrew, yes, as Ally pointed out I was being more flippant than informative :D - Daniel Swan

;) got it... Then I should suggest that the reporter put his story on a wiki and let crowdsourcing write his article too.... - Andrew Su

@Eric ... just got some info ... we should talk. Or you should talk to my neighbor :) - Deepak Singh

Wikipathways and EOL are two that come to mind. Also GeoNet and NOAA's cooperative observer project. There are also a number of examples of distributed data gathering using things like cell phones (not sure if these qualify as crowdsourcing, but in the same category as SETI@Home): Noisetube http://noisetube.net/, Sensing Atmosphere, QuakeCatcher (http://qcn.stanford.edu/). - Hilary

What is with ChemSpider ? You could contact Antony Williams (on FriendFeed, too ! - joergkurtwegner