For those who havn't heard of wikispecies yet: wikispecies is a
wikimedia project meant to accomodate the needs and demands of scientists
to a species directory and database. It was set up at http://
species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page to test it and discuss details.
As the initial brainstorming on the village pump goes on, one thing
becomes clear: wikispecies has the potential to attract many people who
would not contribute to a general encyclopedia, but would to a scientific
database. As wikispecies will strictly suppress any forking from
wikipedia, I thought about an approach that would allow us to use the pool
of species-folks for wikipedia.
The tasks:
1.) Wikispecies provides an interface (already at
www.wikispecies.org)
with templates for different categories (such as "synonymes",
"habitat",
"morphology" etc.)
2.) These categories represent a table that can be accessed by wikipedia
and wikispecies
3.) Wikispecies, which have an emphasis on things like "synonymes" or
"original species description" will display these categories on a high
order
4.) Wikipedia will display the information that seems interesting for the
user of a general encyclopedia in an order that seems appropriate for that
purpose
As I don't understand the underlying technical questions, I would like to
know if this is technically feasible and - more important - who would
volunteer to set up a database that would work as proposed.
Thank you very much in advance,
Benedikt
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