Stan Shebs wrote:
So the executive summary I get out of this is "people on en: didn't like my ideas, so I want to make a separate wiki".
I would put it a different way. "The needs of a general purpose, general audience encyclopedia differ from the needs of a professional reference work, so we should move forward in exploring solutions that meet the needs of both users while minimizing duplication of efforts."
It would be great to have a common store for language-independent information, but not only is there a commons to serve just that role, but without higher-powered database and wiki machinery than is currently available or being worked on, wikispecies is inevitably going to be another pile of per-language data that partly duplicates wikipedia content.
It is my intention that we work early and hard on questions of software development to meet these needs. I am confident that Benedict and others who are excited about this will be working hard to find development help to get the additions they need.
Keep in mind: the initial mission of wikispecies.org is to resolve these questions first.
--Jimbo