Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Which wikipedia articles are you talking about? en:articles de:articles ? Should nl: articles not be written because they have an overlap with de: or en:? WikiSpecies will if anything provide a resource for all wikipedia.
Sister projects are Wikipedia-Wikisource-Wikiquote-Wikibooks-Wictionary. The different languages have nothing to do with sister projects, every one of the project may be available in different languages.
The Wikispecies has overlap with both the Wikipedia and Wikisource project. The problems I see so far: - The plain language description, photos, range maps, taxonomic classification are territory covered by Wikipedia - The original description of the taxon like the one you posted in another thread, as well as a (complete) list of references would not fit into a the Wikipedia, such better fit into something like Wikisource - For obscure taxons the Wikispecies article would only contain such source information, in Wikipedia it'd be something like a stub without any hope of growing (until someone researches that taxon), thus it'd clutter the database and might be better as a redirect to the upper-level taxon. - Something similar applies to one-child taxons like living fossils, where a species is is only one of a family. All the upper level taxons only have the taxonomic data as contents. - And we have the searching enhancements which are specially needed for the taxnomic database to be useful for professional use. It might be possible to generalize them to make them usable outside the ToL-articles, so no harm in creating them in Wikipedia as well. - At least in some languages it has fixed common names assigned to a species (or higher taxons). Yet in Wikipedia we can only use those for interwiki links once it already has the target article - an ugly way to put them into the article before would be interwiki-links hidden by HTML-comments.
I second Mavs concerns about forking, yet including all of the Wikispecies contents (as I understand it) into Wikipedia would be stretching the rules as well. One possible (but not really beautiful) way I could see is to put the source and database stuff into the separate Wikispecies, but put the plain text stuff and basic in Wikipedia - and of course closely link the two.
However I am not sure if this discussion in the mailing list is really the best place - meta might be better. Not all ToL contributors, especially not those from the other languages, are ready the mailing list.
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