[Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
This is great fun ...

However from the perspective of taxonomy this is not complete at all. What
is lacking are the names of the authors and the date of publication. Even
this can be insufficient because there are instances where a description
with the same name by the same people happened in the same year and in the
same publication.

Really, taxonomy is tricky. FYI I have an 80 MB database with ONLY cacti
and succulents. I learned a lot in the process.
Thanks,
      GerardM


On 3 June 2013 15:23, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Or just get the entire taxonomy for a species quickly:
> http://208.80.153.172/wdq/?q=tree[4504][171,273,75,76,77,70,71,74,89]
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Nik Everett <neverett at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I promise I'll get to looking at wikidata's search sometime!  I sure
> don't
> > know when that time will be but I'll get to it!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jun 3, 2013, at 6:01 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Nikola Smolenski, 03/06/2013 11:44:
> > >> What if this interface would exist? I believe it could be made really
> > >> quickly and easily.
> > >
> > > It's not about interface only, for instance the search backend is
> > completely broken and useless for Wikidata, AFAICS.
> > > From what I understand, the interface for Wikidata data is provided by
> > client sites such as Wikipedia. There are no plans for inclusion of
> > Wikispecies as client site, but if/when Wikispecies' needs are
> implemented
> > this doesn't imply Wikispecies would be useless, rather that it would
> have
> > easier access to data and could focus on its scope i.e. presenting such
> > data. Currently it tries to do both and IMHO fails at both.
> > >
> > > Nemo
> > >
> > > P.s.: There are also connected problems like sv.wiki becoming a
> > Wikispecies/Wikidata on its own with a million species bot-entries, but
> > it's another story.
> > >
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