Mav is right about wikispecies, and I propose also that we should say his logic should apply to wiktionary. We don't need a wiktionary, since all that information is in the wikipedia already. It's a duplication of efforts, and dilutes our efforts and contributors's time. Let's get rid of it.
James
PS - I'm joking
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:30 PM To: wpmail@pcbartlett.com; wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: What is the purpose of this mailing list ??
Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
The Tree of Life project's aim has always been to write about all species. I think that ambitious aim has been part of the reason for its success in becoming the largest wikiproject (tens of thousands of articles), with the most contributors.
I fully support this, as I think it is an absolutely excellent thing to be doing.
I am personally disappointed that you want to put a stop to that - presumably coming up with some guideline so that *some* species are allowed articles, but not all.
Huh? Why would we put a stop to that? Why would we come up with guidelines to prohibit some species from wikipedia? I do not support any such thing.
It also rides against the overwhelming consensus of this thread, as mentioned in my other post. Whatever their position on wikispecies, on-one has suggested crippling wikipedia.
Especially not me! I wonder if you misunderstood something I said, because I absolutely agree that Wikipedia and the Tree of Life project should have a very ambitious goal of every species.
If anything, it makes more sense to say that I think that WikiSpecies should be "crippled" in that it should not have references to Tigger and Jaws, because it is not a general encyclopedic reference work but a specialized database. But I don't accept that this amounts to "crippling" anymore than wiktionary is crippled by our insisting that a dictionary is not an encyclopedia.
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