"Encyclopedia of Earth" is a comprehensive encyclopedia being collaboratively written by the world's leading experts that addresses all aspects of the Earth's natural systems and their interactions with society. It's sponsored by National Council for Science and the Environment and the Environmental Information Coalition. It's home page has featured articles and authors and provides search and browsing capabilities.
Now, the public site for the "Encyclopedia of Earth" is now up at http://www.eoearth.org/ . About 200 articles have been reviewed, approved and published and another ~1,000 await review. They have ~200 authors and ~80 editors approved and most of them are still working on it. This week, they will be stepping up the recruitment of new authors and editors and the production on articles. A major 'public' launch of the Encyclopedia of Earth with a few thousand articles is probably 1-2 months away. If you have the expertise, you can sign up on site.
This is both a major new environment resource and proof-of-concept for a new system for authoring and vetting scientific information. The authoring-vetting system uses a private wiki open only to approved authors with review and approval by domain-expert stewards.
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