I recently found out that somebody created a wikia specifically for orchids...
Orchids Wiki
An orchid wikia website could eventually turn out to be a tremendously useful resource...depending on how many people contribute to it. In order to get a rough idea of the quantity of potential contributors I thought I'd create a poll to see how many people have ever edited Wikipedia in some way.
If you have never edited a wikipedia type site would you be interested in learning how?
Currently, there are only 2 people editing the
Orchids Wiki website but I tested the waters by creating an article for
Coelogyne nitida using a layout that was more compartmentalized than then current layout. Unfortunately, the admin who started the wikia reverted my layout back to the current layout and generalized some of the specific data that I had included.
For example, I included lowest average temperature of 35F to a highest average temperature to 66F and the admin removed my temperatures and instead wrote... "Plant grows in cool to intermediate temperatures..." I asked him what the benefit is of generalizing information when specific information is available but he hasn't responded yet.
I'm hardly interested in contributing specific data such as latitude range, temperature range, etc if the data is just going to be generalized but we'll see how flexible the admin is. But obviously, if there is an article on an orchid with missing temperature data then specifying whether it is cool, intermediate or warm growing is better than nothing.