GeologyRocks

An attempt to describe 1.8 million species launched yesterday which will provide descriptions, images, videos and sounds of all the species online. Unlike wikispecies, this will be compiled by experts and, hopefully, will be of higher quality and consistancy. Rod Page, a taxonimist from the University of Glasgow, has already tried something like this called iSpecies (more detail on Rod's blog). So what's the difference between WikiSpecies, iSpecies and this latest attempt - money! The group have funding of $62.5 million dollars over the next 10 years.

However, 1.8 million species isn't a lot and won't cover the majority of the species that poliferate this planet and of course, won;t cover the species we don;t yet know about...

More info:
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070508/full/070508-7.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6638017.stm