Re: Good News!!

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

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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