Marco Krohn wrote:
[...] "trivia information" which exists in Wikipedia articles, but surely will not part of any wikispecies article.
If we strongly limit the Wikipedia "depth" for ToL articles, we still will at some point have >100.000 articles, where - except trivia information - the Wikipedia articles will be more or the less subset of the information which is contained in wikispecies.
Just to cherrypick :-), I'm not sure that it's quite accurate to say that specialists are not interested in "trivia" or connections to pop culture; consider how popular clownfish experts got a week after Finding Nemo came out, or look at Howard Scott Gentry's book on agaves, where a number of difficult species identification problems are shown to be intertwined with tequila consumption, wealthy European plant collectors, and Yucatan seaport history. Look closely and you'll see FishBase has a fish-on-stamps section...
In a way, wikispecies is seeming more like a cut-to-the-chase for people who already know the background ("what are the species of blind cavefish in Oklahoma?" in response to "what's that white thing doing down there, a hundred miles outside its range?!?" :-) ).
Stan