--- "James R. Johnson" modean52@comcast.net wrote:
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?
Yes - that would be most useful. What we *could* do is have the scientific name as a template for each taxon and species name or just link to the that name directly and depend on redirects to get the user in the right place.
Either way a separate page on each wiki will be needed to make the links work (either a redirect or a template with the correct link).
For example: {{Animalia}} would be used on the Commons in all taxoboxes for animals. On the German Wikipedia there would be a template named [[Bearbeiten von Vorlage:Animalia]] whose only content would be [[Tiere]] (German for 'animal'). Thus all animal taxoboxes work as if a direct link to the German article on animals were in them.
Or [[Animalia]] could just be a redirect to [[Tiere]]. But that is a bit of a kludge if you ask me (although such a redirect would still be good to have for other reasons).
The ability to call upon that from any Wikimedia wiki and have updates to the Wikimedia Commons version instantly propagate to every wiki, would be great.
Wikimedia Commons will be created and there is a lot of support for it and nobody still opposes the idea AFAIK. The only question still before us is if we wait for the software functionality to come first or do we just go ahead and start adding images, media files, and other common data now and just hope somebody codes the features. Last time I checked we were strongly leaning toward starting now and coding later.
Coordinating project-wide aspects of WikiProjects from the Commons would also be a neat idea since Meta is more geared toward community development instead of language-neutral content management (which is what managing taxoboxes and element data would be).
-- mav
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