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Screenshot  Screenshot of species.wikimedia.org home page on 3 May 2011 | |
Type of site | Species directory |
|---|---|
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Benedikt Mandl (proposed project in 2004); Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia community |
| URL | species |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2004 |
Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalogue of all species; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales stated that editors are not required to fax in their degrees, but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience.[1][2] Wikispecies is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC BY-SA 4.0.
Started in September 2004, with biologists around the world invited to contribute,[3] the project had grown to a framework encompassing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Wikipedia articles on individual species by April 2005.[2]
- ^ "Calling all taxonomists". Science. 307 (5712): 1021. 2005. doi:10.1126/science.307.5712.1021a.
- ^ a b "WikiSpecies". American Scientist Online. Sigma Xi. 25 April 2005. Archived from the original on 30 April 2005. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ Peplow, Mark (15 March 2005). "Species list reaches half-million mark". Nature. doi:10.1038/news050314-6.