[Wikipedia-l] Developers needed!

[James R. Johnson]

Looking through the wikipedia...

Going through the wp, I'm finding that a wikispecies, in my humble opinion,
should get a go as a starter project, to see what happens.  The
organization, I'd vote to organize by the taxonomic names, in Latin form
(deuterostomata page, not "deuterostomes"), and have whatever everyone
thinks should be on there.  I'd be happy to help out with organizing it,
doing some articles on homo, australopithecus, and dinosauria (my favorite
subjects in biology).  Perhaps also in the main Wikispecies page, there
should be an outline of evolution, and the current theories regarding that,
and how the taxonomic system itself implies the evolutionary nature of life
itself.  A link to www.talkorigins.org may also be useful on the main page
as well.

James 

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James R. Johnson
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:04 PM
To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
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Looks essentially what a wikispecies should look like, I guess.  I guess a
w-species would focus more on the biology, history, genealogy, genetics, or
what, so that it's different from the w-pedia?  My only thought was to click
on the taxonomic names to go down to what you wanted, with perhaps shortcuts
along the way to more common or popular animals/plants, etc.  

James 

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Mayer
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:57 PM
To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] Developers needed!

--- "James R. Johnson" <modean52 at comcast.net> wrote:

> For a wikispecies, I would expect to be able to click on the Kingdom 
> (Animala), Phylum (Chordata), Subphylum (Vertebrata), and so on so I 
> can narrow down progressively to homo sapiens, homo neanderthalensis, 
> homo erectus, etc., and on the each further down level (i.e. Chordata, 
> then Vertebrata), the most notable species would have higher links on 
> that
page.
> Is that what you mean by category?

Taxoboxes are a standard part of every WikiProject Tree of Life article. The
only time there are breaks in the navigation are when an intermediate
article does not yet exist for that taxon. 

But your example already exists. Start at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote and work your way down. 

As time passes there will be few and fewer breaks until all taxa are covered
(hopefully every species known to science will also be covered). 

There could also be a category for each taxon, but that needs to be worked
out first. 

-- Daniel

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