I totally disagree; I am sure that a lot of information will be overlapping and therefore, the two projects should remain connected. Nevertheless, a species directory would serve a different purpose than the wikipedia as such and have a significantly different structure (as seen in the draft at my last e-mail) to allow highly specific search functions.
I already got a lot of supportive e-mails by a range of people - and that is eventually what counts for a wiki project, to my understanding. There is a need for an extensive species directory, and I will keep asking for support!
Benedikt
--- "James R. Johnson" modean52@comcast.net wrote:
I'm all for it - sounds pretty cool. Could there possibly be redirects
from
the Wikipedia to the Wikispecies, or vice versa? Then Wikispecies could hold all the species info, and free up wikipedia space for other stuff (don't know what, but it could). Would it be like current wikis as in en.wikispecies.org, de.wikispecies.org, ang.wikispecies.org?
Absolutely not! Wikipedia is the place to have articles on species - not a separate project.
-- mav
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