Thanks
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:44:15 PST)

Hi,

I want to thank all of you who posted your encouragement about announcing
wiki additions either on the list or privately. It appears that enough
people are interested in hearing about the new additions to continue to do
it. I will follow Dylan's suggestion and include at least the genus being
referenced in the subject so people who are not interested won't have to
read the whole post.

As this new year begins I want to thank those people who helped me last
year with the wiki and the list. Arnold Trachtenberg continues to assist
with the list and almost every day removes an ever increasing amount of
spam that is posted by non-members of our list. He has also helped people
add pictures to the wiki. Diane Whitehead also helps with the list, problem
solving and helping non members who post to our list looking for
information or to wanting to reach someone on the list. Jay Yourch made a
major contribution to the wiki last year when it was upgraded. He spent
hours and hours sorting out all the problems and making it
operational. Before that he had figured out a way to add thumbnails to our
wiki pages which I think everyone agrees has improved the quality of the
wiki enormously. He continues to think about ways to improve it and to help
me whenever there is a problem. Linda Foulis has assisted when we have
needed to make a lot of changes. She helped a lot with the thumbnail
conversion, has split up pages, added tables, added links, etc.

Thanks to everyone who has added to the quality of our list by asking and
answering questions. I continue to appreciate what a helpful group of
people are subscribed to this list. And thanks to all of you who have
contributed pictures and text to the wiki, found mistakes and told me about
them or corrected them on your own. I especially am grateful for all of
those people who have taken the time to learn how to use the wiki and who
have independently added your pictures and information.

Happy New Year everyone.

Mary Sue
PBS list and wiki administrator