Going head-to-head with sites similar to Wikipedia, EOL will be a huge web site containing information about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species. Information will be free and with sections geared toward students, teachers and researchers.
The site will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. The 300 million pages of information will take about ten years to complete.
Initial funding of $12.5 millions from the MacArthur and Sloan foundations will get the project through the first 2.5 years.
Hopefully most schools won’t block this one.