I NEED A DATABASE OF BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE OF ALL THE COMMON ANIMALIA ,AVES
AND PLANTS
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Hello,
I'm a computer science student and I must to do a small project on the web
semantic area. I'm thinking to do something like a metada framework for
the species description. The objetive is that data of species can be
readed and procesed for no human agents.
I have some questions:
1. Wikispecies project gives some metadata (like RDFs) for the species in
the database?
2. Do you know if there is some ontology (like OWL) for taxonomies?
Thanks
Daniel Hernandez
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Santiago, Chile.
http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~dhernand/
Hello to all the Wikispecies-interested, which at the moment doesn't seem to be a very large number. Yesterday I registered for the first time with Wikipedia, although I had checked out a number of entries in a few visits during the past year. One of my primary areas of interest is mycology, more specifically mushrooms and other large, fleshy fungi, so when I came across a mention of Wikispecies and its apparent goal of listing, with certain as yet unspecified additional information, all species of life on earth, I experienced a few moments of great anticipation. However, after going to the website and then checking out the discussion archives, I was wondering whether the whole project had just died of lack of interest, or from getting impaled on that "fork" which was mentioned in some discussions. (Joking! I'm not sure what was meant by the term, as used, although it sounds as if the question was whether Wikispecies would be a stand-alone site or merely other pages Wikipedia users would be led to via link when they wanted more specific information than was found in a general article about, say, Chiroptera/Bats.)
So, before sharing some of the thoughts I had about what Wikispecies might become, I'd like to hear whether it's just in temporary limbo until those working on it have a little more time to really get going, or whether it's "terminal." I also wanted to let you know about another site and project, Species 2000, which seems to have similar, if not identical, objectives. You can get to it (I hope - I somehow came across it months ago and marked it as a Favorite) via: http://www.annual.sp2000.org, which, when you do a search for, say, Amanita muscaria (the Fly Agaric mushroom), will take you to a page listing synonyms of that species, with a link to the source database, Species Fungorum, at: www.SpeciesFungorum.org or www.indexfungorum.org. The sites don't provide much more than synonyms, species authors and dates, and species publication information, but those are all important items of information for taxonomic purposes.
Hope to hear from somebody!
Jon
Jon Ellifritz
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Mircea Vladoi <mirceavladoi_2003(a)yahoo.com.
Dear Friend,
Im a butterflys Romanian collector, member of Lepidoterological Romanian Society. I have need of information (books, articles, and others works) about the exchange and date of Papua & New Guinea butterflies, in special for Papilionidae, Saturniidae, Pieridae and Heliconidae species for some personal studies. I can send you a list with my wanted butterflies, based on your web site or you have a special list.
I offer, versus your butterflies, information and Romanian butterflies in conformity with your list or I will send you my list. All my papered butterflies are in A1 quality, complete determined, with all information about the date & place of capture, writhed on the every envelope. Each lot is shown in a separated list, with all information, which cover contends of the parcel. All information is writhed in English language.
If you agree my proposals, please, answer me, or send me your opinion about this. I can send you, now about 100 Romanian butterflies, versus your butterflies, as part of our future scientifically exchange between us.
Sincerely,
Mircea.
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An internal news bulletin for the
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== Announcement of Wikizine ==
I am pleased to announce the creation of Wikizine. A new internal news
bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community.
Wikizine is an weekly publication that will list the news of the Wikimedia
projects of the previous week. It will not be like Quatro that has full
articles. That is not the concept. The ideal Wikizine is short. Every news
listing contains of an one line summary and an url to some place where you
can find more information.
To subscribe go to;
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== Why ==
I, [[w:nl:gebruiker:Walter]], have found for many years that Wikipedia,
now Wikimedia, has a very serious internall communication problem. There
is to much information and it is highly fragmented between many wiki
pages, mailing lists and other places. Even if you try to read everything
you do not know all wikimedia news.
I have done proposals in the past to attempt to counter this problem but
nothing came from that. Also other attempts like "going-ons" and "Quatro"
do not seem to be a great success.
So I have decided to try to do it myself. Wikizine is an attempt in that
direction. Of it will be an success will be depend for an large part of
the readers and the feedback. I will try to discover all the news that
there is about Wikimedia and report the most relevant news of in Wikizine.
But I will fail to discover all the news. Wikizine needs to receive
reports of things that are going on somewhere in a strange, far away wiki.
Especially from the projects and languages from who you never hear.
== Who should read Wikizine? ==
Everybody who likes to do so may read it off course. But the target
audience is definitely; stewards, ambassadors, bureaucrats and sysops,
members of the board of one of the wikimedia foundations.
It is for the people who are doing the Wiki-management. The focus will be
on the technical aspect. News about changes in the way the wikisotware
works, new functions. Things that are broken. Other Wikimedia news will
also be included but the focus is technical news that has an impact for
the users and readers of the wiki.
The idea and hope is that some of those readers will report back
interesting news from there project and translate/communicate the news in
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Wikizine is distributed by the mailinglist Announce-l. This list is only
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Please inform your local community about Wikizine and report news to
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Hello,
I've just heard your ZooBank project mentioned on Radio 4's Leading Edge
programme (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/leadingedge.shtml), and was
struck by some similarities between your project, and wikispecies - the open
directory of species (http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).
I imagine you've probably seen this project, but just thought I'd mention
it.
Cheers,
Leigh.
Hello. I'd like to get some feedback about how Wikispecies is going.
It's difficult to tell from looking at the pages here whether the
project is going well or not. Specifically, I'd like answers to the
following:
1. Is there duplication with Wikipedia, and if so, how is that
being dealt with? Have policies been created to ensure Wikispecies
will not be a fork of Wikipedia?
2. Is data from here having any use within Wikipedia?
3. Are there unresolved language issues? Should Wikispecies be
available in other languages or are measures needed to make sure the
project is multilingually useful within the same wiki?
4. Are users applying standard templates to new pages? If so, will
these be easy to adapt to wikidata format
(<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/wikidata>) when that becomes
available?
5. Are there any technical measures needed to make this project useful?
6. Do you feel this project needs to be separate, or would
combining it with Wikipedia, Wikibooks, or even the Wikimedia Commons,
make more sense?
7. This wiki was supposed to provide a solution to the problem that
there is no central registration of species data. Do you feel the wiki
in its current state does help to solve this?
8. Wikispecies was supposed to be aimed at the needs of scientific
users rather than general users. Is this still the case? Does this aim
still seem the best approach for this project?
9. Does the Wikispecies Charter still seem viable?
http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Wikispecies_Charter
10. The Wikispecies FAQ I wrote at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies_FAQ noted that Wikispecies
was still in the discussion stage. Do you feel it has evolved past
this point now?
Thanks.
Angela.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela