Re: Good News!!

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That makes it even MORE meaningful, Bob! - -  A uniting team effort.  
That's wonderful! Congratulations to you and your team!!
Ruth
 
 
In a message dated 12/25/2011 5:28:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
robertpries@embarqmail.com writes:

Thanks  George, but most of the credit should go to the team of wiki users 
who have  put in a phenomenal amount of hours. I especially thank the many 
overseas  irisarians who have been an incredible force in getting this done.  
Betsy  Higgins has been my right hand and Jan Lauritzen my left. Each has 
edited at  least 20,000 saves and I thonk much more. I should stop before I 
start naming  all 300+ contributors. This has been a project uniting thw 
whole Iris  world.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Boyce"  <glenara@aol.com>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Sunday,  December 25, 2011 5:10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Good  News!!

WOW! Hats off to you Bob.  George Boyce, Glenara Gardens,  AIS R3VP



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Pries  <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
To: aisdiscuss  <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Sent: Sun, Dec 25, 2011 2:15 pm
Subject:  Re: [AISdiscuss] Good News!!


We have hit a new benchmark. The Iris  Encyclopedia now has over 40,000
cultivar
ages. The Iris Register I am  told has 65,000 registered names and with
nregistered, and botanical names  included there should be no more than 
80,000
ames total, so we are  somewhere between 50% and 60% of complete. It seems
ikely we will be up to  that by this summer.
ut we have approximately only 30,000 images. So you  history detectives can
help
s find many images that are missing. It is a  delight to see pages with 10 
to
15
mages.  So ultimately we could  have over a million images. With now over 
300
elpers it is my wish for the  New Year that we can top this last year. 
Thanks
gain to everyone and have a  great New Year.
lease excuse my cross posting the good  news.
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