[Wikipedia-l] Re: Developers needed!

Wed Aug 25 19:40:53 UTC 2004

Daniel Mayer a écrit:
> --- Benedikt Mandl <benedikt.mandl at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
>>I don't see any mistake that Wikispecies would make in a similar manner.
>>Another thing we can learn from www.all-species.org: there is a whole list
>>of the most eminent taxonomists, all of them supporting the idea of a
>>central database of species, indicating an urgent need for that. They all
>>took on the patronage (whatever that means in "ALL species" terms). Mav: HOW
>>MANY OF THEM DO YOU THINK SUPPORT A GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA? How many of them
>>already support the ToL in public?
> 
> 
> You must first demonstrate that such functionality could not be added to
> Wikipedia (which is *NOT* a general encyclopedia but a collection of many
> specialized ones). Several people have already proposed ways to do *exactly*
> that. 
>  
> -- Daniel

Just for the record, I think Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia. ant