Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Not every reference work is an encyclopedia. Other
types of reference
works will likely include, according to the specific needs of their
users, both more and less information of various kinds. It's just
different.
Are we going to have literally thousands of different project then? Why
species in particular? Just off the top of my head I can think of
dozens of other possibilities (such as languages). And why aren't these
being made as wikibooks? When previously it came up that some people
wanted general-purpose articles on food, and other people wanted more
specialist articles specifically on how to cook food (i.e. recipes), the
decision was made that recipes should be done at wikibooks. Why
shouldn't a species reference work be a wikibook?
-Mark