--- Pete/Pcb21 pete_pcb21_wpmail@pcbartlett.com wrote:
- There should be a defined mechanism for importing wikispecies
information into wikipedia. I envisage the current ToL taxoboxes being currently replaced with information imported from wikispecies using some sort of filter. Alongside this import would sit a more waffly description of the species and less scientific-relevant information. The import process should be automated as possible, and preferably entirely automatic and in real-time (though this would require an extension to the MW software). This import should be designed to work with non-English Wikipedias as far as is possible. It would not be acceptable to just have links to Wikispecies. It must be more integrated to avoid duplication of effort.
This is a wrong-headed approach since many different things will require database functionality. Just have the common data on Wikimedia Commons and call upon it from within one of the other Wikimedia projects. Element data, as I already noted, would also be very important to host in that way.
-- mav
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