Wikispecies
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| Wikispecies | |
|---|---|
| Image:Wikispecies-logo-en.png | |
| URL | http://species.wikimedia.org/ |
| 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 |
| Launched | August 2004 |
Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation that aims to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species (including animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, and protista). It is aimed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales, chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, has said that editors are not required to fax in their degrees, but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience.[1][2]
Started in August 2004, with biologists across the world invited to contribute,[3] the project had grown a framework encompassing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Wikipedia articles on individual species by April 2005.[2]
In May 2007, the project exceeded 100,000 articles.[4]
Wikispecies is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
See also
References
- ↑ (2005-02-18) "Calling all taxonomists" (PDF). Science 307 (5712): 1021. doi:10.1126/science.307.5712.1021a.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "WikiSpecies", American Scientist Online, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 2005-04-25.
- ↑ Mark Peplow. "Species list reaches half-million mark" (PDF), Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2005-03-14. (archive)
- ↑ Wikispecies statistics
External links
- Official site
- Species Community Portal
- The Wikispecies Charter, written by Wales.
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Acknowledgement and Attribution Regarding Sources of Content
Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
