No worries Delia,
Will pause Opus Editing for a short while, Spring has sprung in Queensland and I want to be out birding.....
Tom
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Species Status Link? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Tom Tarrant
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No worries Delia,
Will pause Opus Editing for a short while, Spring has sprung in Queensland and I want to be out birding.....
Tom
Wonder we we go from here? I thought that the whole point of the web was to link to other sites......suppose I will have to re-consider my involvement in the project if my input is negative.
Tom
Tom forgive me but apart from here where you say you are going to try and emulate Bf opus, do you give us any sort of link?
http://www.aviceda.org/node/59
http://www.aviceda.org/node/59
Glen Tepke
Oceanodroma
Not at BirdForum. They've always had a rather parochial, proprietary outlook, so Andy's statement is no surprise to me. What a shame that concern for providing information about endangered species doesn't take precedence over keeping eyeballs on the site.
In my browser, the words "Birdforum's Opus" are a link to Opus.
Glen
This is a fantastic opportunity to put all the salient info in one place... the problems of the past has been that info has been spread out all over the web. I'm sure everyone can see that this makes sense, and putting effort into genuine content on opus is the main goal.
Your last sentence seems to completely miss the point that the endangered status can be part of the content on the opus article AS WELL.
Andy
Glen Tepke
Oceanodroma
I am calm. Two reasons for linking to BirdLife:
1) Birdlife is the only organization in the world that I am aware of that attempts to gather research and assess the status of every bird species in the world, so all of the salient info is already in one place - on BirdLife. I think it would be fine to repeat that information in Opus with proper references, but that would mean the "info has been spread out all over the web" more, not less. If "genuine content" means original content, then cribbing information from BirdLife or any other source is not adding genuine content, so you might as well link to the source.
2) BirdLife periodically updates the research cited in their species accounts and revises the status of particular species. Give the enormity of the task of creating Opus in the first place, I think expecting the small band of Opus editors (to whom I take my hat off) to keep the conservation status for thousands of species up to date is unrealistic. Linking to the species accounts on BirdLife would address that problem.
Glen
1) Birdlife is the only organization in the world that I am aware of that attempts to gather research and assess the status of every bird species in the world, so all of the salient info is already in one place - on BirdLife. I think it would be fine to repeat that information in Opus with proper references, but that would mean the "info has been spread out all over the web" more, not less. If "genuine content" means original content, then cribbing information from BirdLife or any other source is not adding genuine content, so you might as well link to the source.
2) BirdLife periodically updates the research cited in their species accounts and revises the status of particular species. Give the enormity of the task of creating Opus in the first place, I think expecting the small band of Opus editors (to whom I take my hat off) to keep the conservation status for thousands of species up to date is unrealistic. Linking to the species accounts on BirdLife would address that problem.
Glen
After off-line discussion with Andy, I will leave the 'Status' development and will revert example edits.
Tom
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