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
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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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