Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Not every reference work is an encyclopedia. Other types of reference works will likely include, according to the specific needs of their users, both more and less information of various kinds. It's just different.
Are we going to have literally thousands of different project then? Why species in particular? Just off the top of my head I can think of dozens of other possibilities (such as languages). And why aren't these being made as wikibooks? When previously it came up that some people wanted general-purpose articles on food, and other people wanted more specialist articles specifically on how to cook food (i.e. recipes), the decision was made that recipes should be done at wikibooks. Why shouldn't a species reference work be a wikibook?
-Mark