[Wikipedia-l] Developers needed!

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 25 16:00:34 UTC 2004


--- Benedikt Mandl <benedikt.mandl at gmx.at> wrote:
> I don't see any mistake that Wikispecies would make in a similar manner.
> Another thing we can learn from www.all-species.org: there is a whole list
> of the most eminent taxonomists, all of them supporting the idea of a
> central database of species, indicating an urgent need for that. They all
> took on the patronage (whatever that means in "ALL species" terms). Mav: HOW
> MANY OF THEM DO YOU THINK SUPPORT A GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA? How many of them
> already support the ToL in public?

You must first demonstrate that such functionality could not be added to
Wikipedia (which is *NOT* a general encyclopedia but a collection of many
specialized ones). Several people have already proposed ways to do *exactly*
that. 
 
-- Daniel


	
		
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