Daniel Mayer wrote:
>Looks essentially what a wikispecies should
look like, I guess. I guess
>
>
a
>w-species would focus more on the biology,
history, genealogy, genetics,
>
>
or
what, so
that it's different from the w-pedia?
All that should be covered in the Wikipedia article.
My impression is that Wikispecies' goal is to catalog *every* existing
(and extinct?) species. We're talking about, what, hundred thousands
of articles. This is similar to documenting every town and village,
no matter what the size, and such attempts have historically not been
appreciated within Wikipedia. This is why I think Wikispecies should
be developed separately.
A great many species will only be covered at the genus level since there isn't
much known about them individually. This is not a problem.
The overlap between this proposed project and Wikipedia is simply too great and
will thus harm our coverage of taxa and species by dividing that aspect between
two different projects.
-- mav
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