eol.org

The Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively. The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution. The project was initially led by Jim Edwards and the development team by David Patterson. Today, participating institutions and individual donors continue to support EOL through financial contributions. More information...

Multilingual Wikipedia

In June 2020 the website eol.org was on the 2,758^th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 371^st place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "eol.org" is the 1,380^th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).

The website is placed before flickeringmyth.com and after oas.org in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.

PR-score:

2,758^th place

12,581,323

-3,390,009

AR-score:

1,380^th place

3,791,932

+41,800

F-score:

371^st place

37,663

+807

English Wikipedia (en)

PR-score:

2,613^th place

6,692,003

-1,861,592

AR-score:

1,518^th place

1,367,496

+4,667

F-score:

372^nd place

11,937

+2

Spanish Wikipedia (es)

PR-score:

1,517^th place

1,569,592

-375,399

AR-score:

812^th place

374,664

+22,244

F-score:

192^nd place

3,759

+721

Dutch Wikipedia (nl)

PR-score:

433^rd place

610,394

-120,806

AR-score:

567^th place

112,025

-243

F-score:

478^th place

238

+16

Portuguese Wikipedia (pt)

PR-score:

1,914^th place

386,203

-110,001

AR-score:

939^th place

126,929

-188

F-score:

316^th place

1,516

+2

Bulgarian Wikipedia (bg)

PR-score:

178^th place

358,720

-60,335

AR-score:

28^th place

517,263

+2,630

F-score:

1^st place

10,911

0

Arabic Wikipedia (ar)

PR-score:

712^th place

321,446

-208

AR-score:

292^nd place

265,032

+1,253

F-score:

382^nd place

773

+27

French Wikipedia (fr)

PR-score:

3,999^th place

310,424

-86,738

AR-score:

1,489^th place

196,717

+112

F-score:

1,291^st place

678

0

Polish Wikipedia (pl)

PR-score:

2,215^th place

245,240

-77,619

AR-score:

1,239^th place

80,157

+43

F-score:

286^th place

1,898

+1

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