+------+ | db | <------ interface ----> WIKIPEDIA | ....| | : | <--- other interface -> WIKISPECIES +------+
instead of
+------+ | db | <----- interface ----> WIKIPEDIA | | +----+ | | <-- manual updating ----------------> |db2 | -> WIKISPECIES +------+ +----+
What do you think?
I think that this option would have considerable advantages, as long as we can make sure that the db provides specific information for wikispecies users that wikipedia users might find too detailed/specialised. If the wikispecies db will be organised like in your suggestion, we would have to be able to create an interface that makes it clear that it is a unit and not a general encyclopedia and provide similar search functions as other species databases (as www.fishbase.org - according to the needs of a certain taxon).
Benedikt