Re: Bulletin Announcement

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From: r*@embarqmail.com

To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:20 PM

Subject: [iris-species] Bulletin Announcement

 

I was asked by someone in this group about the Iris wiki and I realized I had not posted the AIS Bulletin Announcement that I posted for some other Iris groups in this group, so I apologize for cross posting but here is the message;

 

AIS Bulletin Announcement

This is your chance to be a Founding Father or Mother. We are laying the foundations of an Iris Encyclopedia for the AIS website. It will make the Iris Society THE place to go for Iris information on the internet. It will contain an illustrated checklist and more. But it will take the efforts of our members to male it all it can be. If you would like to be a founder of this monumental project, contact robertpries@embarqmail.com.

What would you be doing? We have 65,000 cultivars and need to create a page for each with its registration information. Each cultivar page can accommodate 20 pictures but just having one or two for each would be great for the release to the world on the AIS website. If you can type, paste, or upload pictures, you can help.

At present our team of 10 active docents has uploaded 2,500 pages in 2 months. If we had a hundred docents and each could put up 50 or more entries we would be well on our way. Hybridizers this is your chance to make sure your Irises will be seen when the wiki opens.

Many of you are familiar with the wiki format. The famous Wikipedia is an online reference used by young and old a like. The AIS Iris Encyclopedia is the same type of format. It will always be growing and improving, But if you would like to be a founder now is your chance before it appears on the AIS website. Everyone says winter is the time they have to work on such projects. Do it now!! To view progress click on: http://wiki.irises.org/bin/view