--- Pete/Pcb21 <pete_pcb21_wpmail(a)pcbartlett.com> wrote:
6) There should be a defined mechanism for importing
wikispecies
information into wikipedia. I envisage the current ToL taxoboxes being
currently replaced with information imported from wikispecies using some
sort of filter. Alongside this import would sit a more waffly
description of the species and less scientific-relevant information. The
import process should be automated as possible, and preferably entirely
automatic and in real-time (though this would require an extension to
the MW software). This import should be designed to work with
non-English Wikipedias as far as is possible. It would not be acceptable
to just have links to Wikispecies. It must be more integrated to avoid
duplication of effort.
This is a wrong-headed approach since many different things will require
database functionality. Just have the common data on Wikimedia Commons and call
upon it from within one of the other Wikimedia projects. Element data, as I
already noted, would also be very important to host in that way.
-- mav
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