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Wikispecies
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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.wikimedia.org
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 3.0.
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.
^ ab"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.
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adaptive radiation". BMC Biol. 6: 4–5. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-10. PMC 2276185. PMID 18275614. Wikispecies has information related to Ictonychinae. v t e...
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Lynx Edicions. ISBN 84-87334-15-6. OCLC 861071869. Media related to Lophophorus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Lophophorus at Wikispecies v t e...
Cornell University. Retrieved 11 August 2015. Data related to Ardeidae at Wikispecies Well written and illustrated Egret article Encyclopaedia Britannica Great...
Imperial Gazetteer of India 1909, v. 18, p. 325. Nainital District The Imperial Gazetteer of India 1909, v. 18, p. 326. Eulaliopsis binata at wikispecies...
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to Phacochoerus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Phacochoerus at Wikispecies d'Huart, J.P. & Grubb, P. (2005). A photographic guide to the differences...
medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa. Second edition. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone. Data related to Silene undulata at Wikispecies...
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of the World, 4th edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Media related to Gadidae at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Gadidae at Wikispecies v t e...
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