A very Happy New Year to you as well!
It saddens me to hear the way you feel regarding the wiki. I respect your opinion and I appreciate that you share it freely.
I personally believe that this wiki is bigger than any sections or cooperating societies and that all will benefit from it's creation. I don't believe that exclusivity will benefit anyone, nor do I believe that supporting it will come at any cost to the SSI or any other groups.
The information is already available to anyone that wants it in the checklists, R&I's, and irisregister.com. I don't believe it was ever any single group's to keep or share exclusively. The wiki is simply going to condense, organize, and publicize. I don't mean to be argumentative, I just felt I should say that I don't view the wiki as competition or a threat.
All said, I've nearly completed the entry of B's for all median classes in the wiki. I'll be stopping with the completion of Z. ;)
Btw, I really like that pedigree feature!
Brock
--- In sibrob@yahoogroups.com, "tjnzatwork" <tjatwork@...> wrote:
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> HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
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> This subject of the Iris encyclopedia needs to be discussed within the
> SSI and it is important that the Society for Siberian Iris gets more
> air . Why not start our own Wiki for Siberians as the SSI checklist is
> the best example of a Cumulative Check list that I have seen so why
> should all that hard work be to the advantage of another Iris
> Society.There is a mountain of photos of siberians within the membership
> and as we are well aware the culture of Siberian Irises is relatively
> young and most of the legendary Hybridisers are still alive to place
> there own thoughts on their fantastic breeding efforts, so Why not???
> The Daffodil Society started a site Daffseek <http://daffseek.org/>
> just pull down the Division and select and then select a country press
> 'submit query' and "Voilà" Check out the Pedigree Chart.
>
> If we have an asset in our society we should think seriously before we
> give it away,which is what Bob is asking, and if we do give it away how
> hard will it be for the Society for Siberian Iris to stay relevant in
> this digital world.
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> As our Cumulative Check list is already digital in the form of a word
> doc it would only take weeks to get a wiki type function attached to our
> existing Web Site.
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> --- In sibrob@yahoogroups.com, Robert Pries <robertpries@> wrote:
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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@ and let me know. but first go to this url and take a
> look:
> >
> > http://wiki.irises.org/bin/view
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> > Happy Holidays!
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