That sounds pretty close to what I was thinking wikispecies should be, but I was hoping to go not by the anglicized name, but the Latin version of the names (Animalia Deuterostomata Chordata Vertebrata ....) And maybe have an overview like:
Animalia --------------------------------- Monostomata Deuterostomata
Then click Deutero, and see:
Animalia ----------------------------------- Deuterostomata ------------------------------------ Chaetognatha Chordata (primates, canines, felines, etc.) <-- some more 'important'/'common' animals in this category Echinodermata (starfishes, sea urchins, etc.) Hemichordata
Then click so on and so forth...down to canis domesticus, felis domesticus, or whatever. That's what I was thinking it should do.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pete/Pcb21 Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:56 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Developers needed!
James R. Johnson wrote:
For a wikispecies, I would expect to be able to click on the Kingdom (Animala), Phylum (Chordata), Subphylum (Vertebrata), and so on so I can narrow down progressively to homo sapiens, homo neanderthalensis, homo erectus, etc., and on the each further down level (i.e. Chordata, then Vertebrata), the most notable species would have higher links on that
page.
Is that what you mean by category?
James
Start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animalia and keep working down the subcategories for examples.
A typical category chain goes:
(Fundamental -> Knowledge -> Science -> Natural sciences -> Biology -> Life) -> Animalia -> Chordates -> Mammals -> Carnivora -> Canines -> Dogs -> Dog breeds -> (185 articles about dog breeds)
My wikitime this week has been categorizing all mammals in a sensible fashion. The chosen categories (typically at the KPCO and F levels) have been extensively thought out at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Tree of Life]] so comments are welcome there.
Pete/Pcb21
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