On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Ting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello dear all, > > I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and saw > the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more potential > would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into WikiData and > close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten tomatos flying > for this naive question ;-) )?
Hi Ting, It is too early for this discussion to be honest. The data in Wikidata isn't up to it yet. Most of the taxonomy data isn't complete and it isn't sourced properly yet. I've been talking about this topic with quite a few people knowledgeable about this matter and taxonomy is not as easy as it might seem from the outside. This needs experts and time. Besides this I believe any discussion like this should be started by and in the WikiSpecies community. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
