[Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Ting Chen, 03/06/2013 11:29:
> I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and
> saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more
> potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into
> WikiData

Yes,

> and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten
> tomatos flying for this naive question ;-) )?

no.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2013/02#Include_Wikispecies_into_Wikidata>
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/thread.html>
TL;DR: Wikidata offers only a partial way to store information and no 
real interface at all for browsing it.

Nemo