Alrighty. Whom do we ask or get to add a taxonomic addition to any living organism's wikipedia entry? How do we create that - database, or what? And as for having it on wikicommons, that's perfect, and have each individual language wikipedia have its own species name (homme, man, hombre, whatever, for homo sapiens) show up in its respective wiki. I don't know how that'd be done, but why don't we try that, see how it works, and if not, go with the w-species.
So long as the database has all the kingdom, phylum,...order...genus, species, then local name, such as:
DB: species | Kingdom | .... | Order | Family | ... | Genus | Species | English | Deutsch | Francais | Englisc | Dansk | Animalia Primata Hominidae Homo Sapiens Human Mensch homme mann Mann
And then have the local name used in each respective wikipedia, so that if a user is in the French Wiki, then he'll see "Animalia...Sapiens" and "Homme" as the common name.
Is that what you're talking about?
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Mayer Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:17 PM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Summary & questions was: Re: Taxoboxes.
--- Marco Krohn marco.krohn@web.de wrote:
Please don't bring it to a personal level who is more "unhelpful". I am sure both sides (pro-/contra Wikipspecies) want the "best", in the sense that we all want to create as much as possible high quality and free content in the long run.
Point taken. I apologize to everybody I've been rude to. This is not an excuse but I felt (and still feel) that the proposed version of Wikispecies would be a fork that would greatly harm our coverage of species info in Wikipedia.
I also fear the creation of Wikihistory, Wikiphysics, Wikiwar, Wikiwhatever forks that would harm our coverage in those areas by diverting eyeballs (readers) and fingers (contributors) to the separate specialized projects, leaving Wikipedia impoverished in those areas. (although subject-specific WikiReaders up to the size of entire encyclopedias can and should be evenutally created. But those would be selected from Wikipedia.)
The idea of creating a separate project that may be more suitable to specialists is also counter to our open spirit, IMO (esp when the originator of the Wikispecies idea suggested restricted editing of entries).
I firmly believe that Wikipedia can contain all these specialized data by creating detailed [[Biology of ...]] articles where needed and leaving a more accessible and shorter summary in the animal/taxon article (most of the time the amount of info - such as in Jimbo's FishBase example - could be put into the main article on the species/taxon).
Use of Wikimedia Commons to share common data (such as the taxoboxes and elementboxes) between all Wikimedia projects and language versions is also a great idea. As well as extending the category system by adding database functions and adding an advanced search capability so that category-specific searches and selects can can be conducted.
-- mav
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