Alfio Puglisi wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Then what the hell is this:
http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification
Looks like a fork of the English Wikipedia's article on scientific classification to me.
-- mav
I wasn't opposed to wikispecies' creation, but I am with Mav with this. As long as wikispecies is nothing more than a data repository it's ok, but if it starts to have detailed articles about classification and such that's clearly fork.
Of course an article like this is useful for wikispecies, if anything to clearly explain what's this wiki about. But it should redirect readers to the relevant Wikipedia article (english or otherwise).
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My hope is that the Wikispecies will eventually have all taxonomic systems available to it. The result will be that when a wikipedia wants to have a taxobox based on the Cronquist systematics, all relating taxons will be in accordance with Cronquist. When it is then later decided on that wikipedia to follow a later system, the update will take into account *all* relevant changes. At this stage it is pie in the sky.
One thing that I think will be really important is to have interwiki links available between Commons, Wikipedia and Wikispecies. I really do want Wikispecies to refer for encyclopedic information to the wikipedias. With these interlinks, cooperation will prove possible and fruitfull.
Thanks, Gerard