Anthony DiPierro wrote:
No it is not since the Commons is a common place to host data and files
that
are used by more than one wiki. It therefore helps to bind us together,
not
divide us.
It was my understanding that Wikispecies is to be a common place to host species data that is used by more than one wiki. So why doesn't Wikispecies help to bind us together?
I think people are using "data" to mean different things. If it means language-independent data (maximum recorded length, say), along with a way to splice it into each language's article, then great, it would be just as beneficial as sharing images; each language WP would get consistent statistics, which would eliminate a major maintenance load, and speed creation of articles for all the languages - just mention the common taxobox, or common general characteristics, and boom, Bulgarian gets content just as good as English.
If Wikispeces data means quasi-articles with text in some language, that has much more undesirable forking potential.
Stan