Wikispecies
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| URL | http://species.wikimedia.org/ |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Species directory |
| Registration | Optional |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Benedikt Mandl (proposed project in 2004); Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Community |
Wikispecies is a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation that anyone can edit with a great potential use to students and researchers. It is an open, free directory of species. This project will cover Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us. As of March 2007 the project has over 92,000 [1] articles.
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[edit] Typical species page
A typical species page would have sections called taxonavigation, vernacular names, alternative classifications, references, notes, and maybe a description of the species. Vernacular names are links to Wikipedia articles in many languages.
[edit] Community Portal
The Wikispecies Community Portal has many links to things which one would need in order to increase their knowledge about the Wikispecies procedures.
The Wikispecies Village Pump is an area of Wikispecies that discusses the project. It is like a Wikipedia article's talk page. Currently it is the largest page on Wikispecies.
The Wikispecies Charter is the basis of Wikispecies. The Charter was written by Jimbo Wales.
The Charter says:
"Note from Jimbo Wales...
- As you know, the creation of this project was somewhat controversial in some quarters, and so I propose an early development of a strong non-forking policy guideline here, illustrating
Here are some of the key points that the board put forward when we approved this project:
- We set up the WikiSpecies wiki for biologists to begin organizing the project.
- We propose that as the software is developed, it should work to strongly support integration with wikipedia, to help avoid duplication of effort, i.e. to avoid forking.
- We ask the participants on wikispecies to think particularly about how their work should differ from a generalist encyclopedia."
[edit] Other languages
Wikispecies is available in 131 different languages which are also licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] External links
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| Wikibooks (Wikijunior) • Wikiversity • Wikimedia Commons • Wiktionary • Wikinews • Wikipedia • Wikiquote • Wikisource • Wikispecies |
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