Wikispecies will have a niche if it can prove to be regularly on the leading edge.
Has there been any discussions about putting newly described species onto the front page? If the information is made accessible, Wikinews editors could write up stories about new discoveries.
Too many new species are described (note: described =/= discovered) each week. We did have an idea of featuring 1 species per day/week but the idea got fizzled when the amount of workload is involved.
What is the "2-year delay" ? I have looked at the AEMNP website, and all of their articles appear to be availabl on their website. What is their open access policy?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Acta_Entomologica_Musei_Natio...
The home page (http://www.aemnp.eu/) only shows some highlighted papers in the latest article. For all papers, you will have to go to http://www.aemnp.eu/latest_issue.htm, but you will discover that the majority of the pdfs only provide an abstract. They will only release the full paper after that 2 year delay, but they kindly granted us access to the full versions of all online issues. For comparsion, those with the restrictions lifted will have a page that has links with the pdf logo (e.g. http://www.aemnp.eu/Volume45.htm) while those still under the delay shows the majority of papers having the textpad logo instead (e.g. http://www.aemnp.eu/Volume48_2.htm)
Andrew
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