Genome sequencing has been democratized by second-generation technologies, and 
even small labs can sequence metazoan genomes now. In this article, we describe 
'959 Nematode Genomes'--a community-curated semantic wiki to coordinate the 
sequencing efforts of individual labs to collectively sequence 959 genomes 
spanning the phylum Nematoda. The main goal of the wiki is to track sequencing 
projects that have been proposed, are in progress, or have been completed. Wiki 
pages for species and strains are linked to pages for people and organizations, 
using machine- and human-readable metadata that users can query to see the 
status of their favourite worm. The site is based on the same platform that runs 
Wikipedia, with semantic extensions that allow the underlying taxonomy and data 
storage models to be maintained and updated with ease compared with a 
conventional database-driven web site. The wiki also provides a way to track and 
share preliminary data if those data are not polished enough to be submitted to 
the official sequence repositories. In just over a year, this wiki has already 
fostered new international collaborations and attracted newcomers to the 
enthusiastic community of nematode genomicists. www.nematodegenomes.org.