Would you use a coral reference database?

[fabbroc]

Originally Posted by Cade

Blue World Aquariums started a "fish wiki" a little while ago. Its pretty cool with rewards for contributing. I could ask Spencer what he thinks about including corals and if we all put in some effort if could be a good resource for corals in no time. There is a scoreboard for the people who contribute the most, turns out RiceReef from here is the leader. Nice work Wayne!

Here is the link: http://www.blueworldaquariums.com/blog/wiki/

If corals were included we would have to come up with a better suited name...
Aquarium Wiki?
Reef Wiki?
.......

Any thoughts?

I like everyones input on this, its great. I like Reef wiki, I was originally thinking CoralDB..
Im just messing around with different cms/wiki packages and figuring out which one will be best suited for the job

[Snaz]

I have an issue with contributing to Blue World's WIKI as it would be their property and that could cause some problems.

How about we either contribute to wikipedia.com entries by including a hobbyists section for each existing entry or create new ones as needed and then build a relevant index to the wikipedia.com entries. Or build new wiki from scratch.

I think expanding on wikipedia.com entries is the best solution as it is independent, already hosted and already contains LOTS of coral and fish entries.

[fabbroc]

Finally something to look at!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2892576/ReefDB-1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2892576/ReefDB-2.jpg
Here are two screenshots of what I have been working on (slowly).
Let me know what you think.
I will soon be putting up a live preview that you will be able to play around with.

[Ian]

I have the aquarium handbook on my ipad and ipod..its pretty good FYI