Wikispecies
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| An open and free directory of species to which you can contribute with your knowledge | |
| Wikiproject to create an open and free species directory | |
| languages | multilingual |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation |
| editorial staff | registered and not registered authors |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | September 4, 2004 |
| species.wikimedia.org | |
Wikispecies (pronunciation: [ ˌvɪkiˈspiːʃiːz ]) is an Internet project that began in September 2004 and is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation on the basis of a wiki . The aim is to create a species directory with information on all forms of life - animals , plants , fungi , various groups of algae , eukaryotic protozoa , bacteria and archaea - as well as viruses . Like the Wikimedia Commons , Wikispecies is a cross-language project. The content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0.
history
Wikispecies was proposed by Benedikt Mandl on August 3, 2004 and confirmed as an official project by the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation on September 5 of the same year.
Project progress:
- May 2007: 100,000 items
- October 2011: 300,000 articles
- June 2014: 400,000 articles
- January 2017: 500,000 articles
- October 2018: 600,000 articles
- December 2019: 700,000 articles
In December 2019, the project comprised around 700,100 pages for species and higher taxa , and a total of around 1.34 million pages, including for taxon authors, taxonomically relevant publications, institutes with type material , and synonyms.
Project order
Wikispecies is aimed at both interested users and academic readers. In the scientist network ResearchGate experts are informed about the project and invited to participate as authors. The taxon articles should at least contain the scientific name, the current classification and, if possible, data on the type and be backed up with references. Further taxonomically relevant information, such as links to the text of the first description , institute or photo of the type material, lectotyping, synonyms and possibly deviating taxonomic concepts are desired. Editing at Wikispecies occasionally leads to new scientific publications. The project cooperates with the Wikidata knowledge database . Wikispecies receives around 9.5 million views per month, most of them from the USA, the Russian Federation, Germany and China (as of December 2019).
criticism
In 2005, the German-language Wikipedia decided for several reasons not to pursue Wikispecies and the integration of the project any further. It was criticized, for example, that Wikispecies did not meet scientific requirements and that it did not reflect the scientific discourse due to its single track. In addition, the representation of all living things that are already considered relevant there is also possible and better in Wikipedia .
Individual evidence
- ^ Species Directory in the Wikipedia-1 mailing list on August 3, 2004
- ↑ decision of the Board of the Foundation (Engl.)
- ↑ Wikispecies: Page Statistics
- ↑ Wikispecies: Page types
- ↑ Wikispecies project assignment at Meta-Wiki
- ↑ Wikispecies - Global Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Life , project at Researchgate.net
- ↑ Example page Lacunaria jenmanii , with links to the first description and type material
- ↑ Sample page Rhodophyta, with different taxonomic concepts
- ↑ Wikispecies in the literature
- ^ Wikispecies: Project Wikidata
- ↑ Wikimedia access statistics for Wikispecies
Web links
Wikispecies: Main page - Species directory
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