From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of
Viola https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia! /SJ
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Many of you may use Wikipedia.
Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to honor Wikipedia.
Viola wikipedia J.M.Watson & A.R.Flores, Int. Rock Gard. 117: 47. 2019
P. 47: http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019Sep261569525649IRG117.pdf https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.srgc.org.uk_logs_logdir_2019Sep261569525649IRG117.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=DZmqtQRXyhOgqkztI2mO9VzZ8DCBvq1PIRFZAci7Tsc&m=QN0PfyGenvJvsBs0frndXDgnn6JpuVuNAekxhaopqDY&s=Rs2HOY64PqT09T_jorN-UQ-sYKpTsGk30n1uDSRparQ&e=
The authors gave a detailed explanation for their choice of the epithet Wikipedia.
“Etymology: We Watsons investigate and write up all our publications at home. We are retired on small pensions, belong to no institution, and work privately on a largely self-funded basis. In the past, we have visited the herbaria and libraries at K and SGO regularly, and once or occasionally B, CONC, LIL, MERL, P, SI, and ULS as well. But for various reasons we are very seldom able to travel to any these days, and have only managed two such visits in the last five years. So now, at the very apogee of our 'publication era', we are totally dependent on our indispensable home library and ... the Internet. Without the latter, we could literally achieve nothing of scientific relevance. It provides information from such a wide number of reference sources and personal contacts that it is impossible to even begin to think about listing them all. However, one is particularly outstanding in that we consult it constantly for information on a wide variety of subjects related to our work - Wikipedia, as cited herein for example. The best token return we can think of is to name a plant accordingly, so it therefore gives us pleasure to record our gratitude via the replacement epithet of this species, as a noun in apposition.”
On 1 Oct 2019, at 18.46, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote: From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of Viola https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia! /SJ
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. -Teemu
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:46, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com forwarded:
Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to honor Wikipedia.
I have reciprocated with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia
Hello,
I am not able to access referenced PDFs right now, assuming it's authoritative enough. I hope it's not a prank, specially considering its name...
El 1/10/19 a les 17:46, Samuel Klein ha escrit:
From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of Viola https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia! /SJ
====== Forwarded message =======
Many of you may use Wikipedia.
Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to honor Wikipedia.
Viola wikipedia J.M.Watson & A.R.Flores, Int. Rock Gard. 117: 47. 2019
P. 47: http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019Sep261569525649IRG117.pdf https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.srgc.org.uk_logs_logdir_2019Sep261569525649IRG117.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=DZmqtQRXyhOgqkztI2mO9VzZ8DCBvq1PIRFZAci7Tsc&m=QN0PfyGenvJvsBs0frndXDgnn6JpuVuNAekxhaopqDY&s=Rs2HOY64PqT09T_jorN-UQ-sYKpTsGk30n1uDSRparQ&e=
The authors gave a detailed explanation for their choice of the epithet Wikipedia.
“Etymology: We Watsons investigate and write up all our publications at home. We are retired on small pensions, belong to no institution, and work privately on a largely self-funded basis. In the past, we have visited the herbaria and libraries at K and SGO regularly, and once or occasionally B, CONC, LIL, MERL, P, SI, and ULS as well. But for various reasons we are very seldom able to travel to any these days, and have only managed two such visits in the last five years. So now, at the very apogee of our 'publication era', we are totally dependent on our indispensable home library and ... the Internet. Without the latter, we could literally achieve nothing of scientific relevance. It provides information from such a wide number of reference sources and personal contacts that it is impossible to even begin to think about listing them all. However, one is particularly outstanding in that we consult it constantly for information on a wide variety of subjects related to our work - Wikipedia, as cited herein for example. The best token return we can think of is to name a plant accordingly, so it therefore gives us pleasure to record our gratitude via the replacement epithet of this species, as a noun in apposition.”
On 01/10/2019 17:46, Samuel Klein wrote:
From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of Viola https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia! /SJ
====== Forwarded message =======
Many of you may use Wikipedia.
Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to honor Wikipedia.
Viola wikipedia J.M.Watson & A.R.Flores, Int. Rock Gard. 117: 47. 2019
<snip> Hello,
According to the international plant names index [0], the name is illegitimate [1] and the plant actual name is "Viola angustifolia". We should probably have the created articles to be renamed toward the legitimate name instead :]
It is still a great token of appreciation, and I am quite happy to see Wikipedia being of good use for plant research!
[0] https://www.ipni.org/n/77202100-1 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen_illegitimum
That's the reason why the idea of "reciprocating" via Wikipedia is always wrong.
Vito
Il giorno gio 3 ott 2019 alle ore 11:27 Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr ha scritto:
On 01/10/2019 17:46, Samuel Klein wrote:
From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species
of
Viola https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia! /SJ
====== Forwarded message =======
Many of you may use Wikipedia.
Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to
honor
Wikipedia.
Viola wikipedia J.M.Watson & A.R.Flores, Int. Rock Gard. 117: 47. 2019
<snip> Hello,
According to the international plant names index [0], the name is illegitimate [1] and the plant actual name is "Viola angustifolia". We should probably have the created articles to be renamed toward the legitimate name instead :]
It is still a great token of appreciation, and I am quite happy to see Wikipedia being of good use for plant research!
[0] https://www.ipni.org/n/77202100-1 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomen_illegitimum
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
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