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
I just submitted a new feature request of "real top bar for mediawiki" in bugzilla. We may add sibling projects into that top bar including this one. :-)
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:04:27 +0200 (MEST), Benedikt Mandl benedikt.mandl@gmx.at wrote:
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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