Around 2000 content pages existed as of August 2007. The Digital Universe claims the following featured portals: Earth, Energy, The Arctic, Texas Environment, U.S. Government, and Salton Sea. The Salton Sea portal for example contains the following pages: Hydrology, Biology, Limnology, Ecological Issues, Values, Geography, Alternatives, and Cultural History.
The Earth portal is working on an Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE),[9] which will focus on the natural environment and its interaction with society.[10] It will differ from Wikipedia by limiting editing privileges to experts, by attributing all edits to their authors, by changes being published publicly only after approval and by using an expert-developed taxonomy for articles.[10][11]
EoE will use two parallel wikis, one "Stewarded", one "Public". The Stewarded wiki will be open only to "recognized scientific authorities" after their credentials have been reviewed.[12] Like Wikipedia, the EoE runs Mediawiki wiki software.[13] EoE is to use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 for its license.[11] Over 400 articles had been written by experts by January 2006.[14]
In May 2006 it was reported that the EoE was due to be launched in June 2006.[15] A July 2006 article reported that the launch would be in fall 2006.[16]
As of May 2007[update], the EoE's Intern
The Earth portal is working on an Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE),[9] which will focus on the natural environment and its interaction with society.[10] It will differ from Wikipedia by limiting editing privileges to experts, by attributing all edits to their authors, by changes being published publicly only after approval and by using an expert-developed taxonomy for articles.[10][11]
EoE will use two parallel wikis, one "Stewarded", one "Public". The Stewarded wiki will be open only to "recognized scientific authorities" after their credentials have been reviewed.[12] Like Wikipedia, the EoE runs Mediawiki wiki software.[13] EoE is to use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 for its license.[11] Over 400 articles had been written by experts by January 2006.[14]
In May 2006 it was reported that the EoE was due to be launched in June 2006.[15] A July 2006 article reported that the launch would be in fall 2006.[16]
As of May 2007[update], the EoE's Intern
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