On Tuesday 24 August 2004 13:19, Benedikt Mandl wrote:
What we should define as a target: Wikispecies should become the most extensive directory of its kind and not specialise exclusivly on a particular group of species (as fishbase does, for example) nor users (NOT for scientists only, for example).
Given this target I fail to see what the difference between wikispecies and wikipedia is or should be. It would have made _some_ sense to me if the audience would be different, e.g., if wikispecies targets scientists rather than "normal" users AND if wouldn't be possible to serve both audiences within wikipedia.
I am doing physics so my knowledge about biology is limited, but from what I read here, in particular from the above defined goals, I am afraid that there will be a big overlap of wikipedia and wikispecies. And I am even more afraid that the wikispecies project will kill parts of the ToL project. Thus the suggestion of wikispecies looks more like an attempt of a fork to me. Where fork means a fork of the contributers.
best regards, Marco