Re: Iris Encyclopedia

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Here is a new site under development that needs your help. The Americn Iris Society is creating an online encyclopedia of Iris. If you are familiar with the wikipedia than you know what the potential is for this site. At first glance you may think it is only and online illustrated checklist of every type of Iris. You would be correct but it will be much more. There are 65,000 entries in the AIS checklists and ultimately all will have their own page, up to 20 pictures for each and a chance for scores of people to add information. Presntly we have a small crew that in the last couple of monthes have put up over 1,000 cultivars but our goal is to have at least 10,000 pages up before it appears to the world on the AIS website. Presently the beginning of the alphabet has the most entries and medians and MDBs have the most pages up. We need your help to give the Siberians the representation they deserve. I invite you to visit the beginnings and see if you would like to be a part of this monumental venture. If so send me an e-mail at robertpries@embarqmail.com and let me know. but first go to this url and take a look:

http://wiki.irises.org/bin/view
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From: "Ellen Gallagher" <ellengalla@yahoo.com>
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