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Contents 1 Thanks 2 Images I uploaded 3 RFC 4 Some advice 5 Languages of Martinique and Guadeloupe 6 Linnaean taxonomy 7 Vernacular names 8 Maan 9 Proposed Changes 10 test layout 11 Classification is never provided 12 Please rename me

[edit] Thanks

Thanks Michel!--Alnokta 09:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images I uploaded

Hi Kempm,

sorry about the missing copyright info - should all be CCLASA2.5, I am adding the info now.

Per Erik Strandberg 17:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

No I am not - I am adding them to commons :) (The template had another name). Will this/these proposed logo/s ever be used? If it is highly unlikely they could just as well be removed? Per Erik Strandberg 17:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Start here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikispecies_006.svg Per Erik Strandberg 17:46, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFC

Please comment on my contribs. Just want to know if i'm getting the hang. 82.39.9.197 19:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome at wikispecies. There's a few problems with your additions. First we are trying not to use any specific language except for the scientifically accepted language Latin, therefore there's no reason to redirect english words to articles. On the article Arachnid you used text only, which is more for a wikipedia article. Our wiki is fundamentally different from wikipedia. And with good reason. You can find an explanation on what we're doing and why we're doing it on Help:Contents. If you like to contribute and share your knowledge with us, you will also find formatting and syntax rules in that section. --Kempm 20:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some advice

Using Latin is fine, but there is no reason not to have #R for those of us who are not so well versed in Taxonomy. So for example, all the variations in the English language of Canis lupus familiaris should be redirected there (likedog), simply to increase traffic and participation.

The majority of Wiki editors aren't schooled in the finer points of taxonomy and I think we deserve a helping hand as such. Now another point, the main page simply isn't good enough to attract interested readers and contributors, no FAC, and i don't see much of a discussion going on in the V pump.

I don't mean to barge in here and boss you around and spoil your work, but i think you should have more of a free card to do what you like as an administrator and even make a featured article today if you and another sysop agree on it. This is simply because you are at a very early stage and need to generate more interest. Thirdly and finally, i think you need to explain on the main page a brief intro as what WikiSpecies is and is not. Cheers.

172.200.50.23 12:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Giving all the variations of a word in a specific language is the responsibility for the wikipedia's. For taxonomists there's only one word Canis lupus familiaris. Everyone from every little corner of the world knows what it means, and there can be no misinterpretation. That's why Linnaeus thought up this system in the first place. The words Canis lupus familiaris are linked to a scientific publication, describing the species.

There's a very specific reason for the existence of Wikispecies. Unlike wikipedia, we don't want to attract everyone, but our target audience is the scientific world. Wikimedia foundation is working on project Wikidata, and once that has been implemented our purpose will become clearer. Every project will then be able to fill their taxoboxes with data from wikispecies. Words like dog, canine, saint-bernard, Rottweiler, or whatever can then be linked to Canis lupus familiaris at will.

We are bound what we can do by what the wikimedia foundation has layed upon us. We are limited to actual data, and we will have to remain language independent, as there will only be one wikispecies database. No language forks.

If you have ideas for making a better Main page, go ahead and make an example. I will gladly bring it in for discussion, and if the community likes your idea, we'll use it. Note that we're currently discussing implementing an article of the month section. And we will probably add that to the main page, within considerable time. Thank you. --Kempm 12:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for replying.

Thanks also for enlightening me on those points. From what I understand you don't want give credence to none scientific terms even if it meant making the data base more accessible to an interested but non scientific readership. I understand this but in my humble opinion its not a viable approach because the scientific community doesn't like the general idea of wikis in the first place. The scientific community believes in credentials, so ultimately as a very young wiki looking for more participation you must have good PR, even if this will attract the wrong crowd, because along with every fire comes smoke.

I like the idea of the article of the week/month idea, I'll make a mock of what i think the main page could look like and show you. Please can we discuss the above point further, my take is that WS can point words to articles even when Linnaeus didn't assign to a species. Has this been discussed fully anywhere? Cheers.

172.141.157.193 13:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I always like to discuss things in order to make wikispecies better. I don't have all the knowledge in the world, and make many mistakes. And I'm sure many things need improvement. For some things I'm aware, others not. Ideas from others will help improving, even if the ideas will sometimes get rejected.

I have here a link from Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikimedia. He specifically mentions how different wikispecies MUST be. You can find more points about why this, is shattered on the site. Starting point would be Help:Contents.

I don't specifically exclude anyone from editing this wiki. But we are limited to what we're allowed to do, and because where we are going to in the future. Those are two big restrictions.

Help:Contents will show that a species name should always be bound to an original description, as published in magazines, or books. The name itself doesn't mean much, but when a holotype is given (a specimen in a museum), and a reference to the magazine in which the name was first described, and given to that specimen, it becomes clear to what was actually meant. A lot of this information has been lost through time, holotypes have been destroyed, by fires, bombs in war etc. But we gather this information nevertheless. Because we need to make sure the Canis lupus familiaris is actually a dog, and not a cat.

--Kempm 13:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

yes, im reading through the help:contents, im working on a mock of the main page right now. i also understand jimbo's point, and accept it, and yours. plz understand my suggestions are in good faith so that I and others can understand more about wikispecies. i have a question regarding the featured article, how will it work? we will feature a WP article about an order that is also listed here so as to promote it? another question, i would like to create a WS template for WP to show that an order is listed here, any advice? 172.143.223.86 14:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I know it's good faith :) Keep discussing, so we stay awake.

Here's a link to our discussion on featured article: Wikispecies:Featured articles I was thinking that we will need as much room for this as the box with all the language links (the pink one). And move those language links to somewhere else. I think what should be shown on the article of the month is: The special star, picture of the species, name, and link to wikispecies. Maybe if there's enough room links to other wikipedia's.

Linking to wikipedia articles can be done with interwiki links. en:Main page. Leaving the : off will move this link to the sidebar. On wikipedia there are special templates to link to wikispecies. We do have templates like: Template:Wikipedia. There's a couple more, but really only use interwiki links. --Kempm 14:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks for keeping the thread going.

I don't know how say the following point strong enough so that you understand the weight of it, please understand... i've arrive late and would have pushed for this in the discussion on the FA, this is not about whether Panthera tigris should be featured or not, its about whether we should feature one of our own articles on an order or Wikipedia more descriptive article on the same subject, for a combination of both.

The FA (featured article) should not be to showcase existing work here, but to attract attention to the portal as a whole. On WP the FA is indeed to showcase their exemplary articles but that is because they are past the stage of gathering a large enough base to claim the article is all comprehensive. They already have a readership and are merely entertaining them with their FA.

With WS, we need to attract a readership... with a new template leading to WS from WP, which ill make soon... so that we get the right people to contribute... the result being WS gets a stable readership and become an established source! Now here is my biggest concern, article here look to me to be lists, which is fine from taxonomic point of view, but the Featured article box on the main page is going to look very weird. I think the featured article should be an article we choose from WP. The reason being that we don't have such a boring looking main page. Taxonomy is very interesting but its subjects is even more interesting, when i thought of WS (even though id never been here) i thought of it as a WP all about animals/living things, and how they are taxonomically categorised, but when i came here i saw its all bear bones, no info about the animals integrated here, just lists etc. This is taxonomy, which is very good, people are going to come to WS all the time from WP to check what an animal/plant is when we affix all the WS templates in the relevant WP articles, but we have need to have a bit more colour.

Do you have another note from Jimbo saying somewhere that even if you wanted to you cant stoop from your high level and make the content a bit more educative? It is my belief that the Internet is becoming an educational institution.

I hope you understand, its only one point I'm making, more colour, more prominence for WS, more contributors, the best date base on the subject in the world.

Specify 15:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you have a point here. I'm going to copy part of this discussion to the other discussion, so others can join in on this discussion. I do see the Wikimedia projects as one big project, and I think there should be much better cooperation and coordination between the seperate projects. As such it DOES make sense to feature articles from wikipedia, like you have made. But, since we are language independent, so does featuring an article from Chinese wikipedia (or any other language).

Let's see what others have to say about your idea.

Thanks, I really like the idea of WIkiSpecies if its graphical and content policy is modernised to take into account my above point. I beleive my approach will bring allot more traffic to WS, we could interwiki on tens of thousands of WP articles and bring over thousands of editors with a good knowledge and provide a general service to WP of giving the taxonomic status of any certain species they have an article on. Specify 15:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Thx for making the Main page. I added that to the discussion. Don't forget to check back to see if your idea has made it. Of course you try promote your idea too :) --Kempm 15:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Languages of Martinique and Guadeloupe

The language who I add is to different kind of creol. It's the historical and second official language of Martinique and Guadeloupe. The creol is different as a pidgrim and th gramatical basis is very different of the french one. The creols of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haïti is a bit similary. There is 400 000 peoples in Martinique and 400 000 in Guadeloupe and everybody in this islands speaks creol. At last, for melanerpes herminieri, it's an endemic species of Guadeloupe and it's logical to put the vernacular name on the page... Thanks for your interessed.

Remihh 19:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linnaean taxonomy

I find the idea of living things being into a hierarchy very interesting. In Kaballah the issue is dealt in great length. According to Judaism, there are five hierarchical levels in existence, angels, humans, animals, plants and rocks, each split up into 70 hierarchical nations. There is a further concept that there are a further 4 in between each, apes, bacteria and salt. Can this make any scientific sense? Specify 19:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I do not know what the scientific sense is of that classification. But I do know current classification differs in as much that the scientific world doesn't recognize angels :) I'm not saying they don't exist, but noone ever caught one and put it in a jar to study them.

Taxonomy is not a boring scientific branch, it's very vibrant. And giving things a name is absolutely necessary before further studies can be made. Current taxonomy reflects how organisms evolved, as the scientific world believes. With every skeletal find the taxonomy can change. --Kempm 19:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Lolz! I wasn't wondering about angels making scientific sense. In kabbala a human is an assigned in-between form of an ape and an angel, sometimes leaning one way or another morally, but its totally a religious concept, admitted. Questions, is bacterium a "hybrid" of plants on the path to being Animalia? In know for example in chemistry components of ions in salt can be inorganic (Cl−) as well as organic, which earns a scientific source on this kabbalistic concept. It is possible the Hebrew word is wrongly translated and this concept is not referring to bacterium/yeast. Specify 20:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vernacular names

hi Kempm, I went througt help on wikispecies and find the specifications from vernacular names, that, infact, are very usefull. Can you give me some hints about this, as you've reverted my edits back to previous version. I followed the specifications to show the names correctly. Is there some other rules applaying in this field. In wspecies I'm a newby but as a specialist on grasshoppers I have a plan to commence major work with my collegues in comming weeks in this field.

thanks for your answer and good woork from your side

Peter Podgoršek

Hi sorry for reverting. We have had a new system in place that moved the interwiki's to the sidebar. I didn't think of changing the help pages. In fact we're discussing currently how to deal with the vernacular names in WS:VP. One thing is for sure is that we want to keep interwiki links in the sidebar. By the looks of it we will be using a template to write down all the different languages. Currently we have an example on Panthera leo. Thanks for adding content on wikispecies. And I'll work on the new layout for vernacular names as soon as we decided on the format. Feel free to add to the discussion! --Kempm 20:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Kempm

The listing of Plasmodium species is incomplete to say the least. I have been trying to create a full listing of these. These can be found on the Plasmodium page in Wikipedia. I have refrained from dumping these onto your page if case you wondered what was going on. DrMicro

[edit] Maan

Pas op voor het mannetje op de maan. Tot ziens. Ucucha (talk) 13:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Changes

Would you please give some feedback at wikispecies:Village Pump#Proposed changes from Henk_K? Thanks --Open2universe 23:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] test layout

MÔj, what do you think of this testlayout? : Harpago , it save a lot of space within sight, the tabel as created can be formatted into a template, so user only have to fill in some answers, the template place them where you want it, we even can work with coloures and images, Henk_K 17:52, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification is never provided

Hi,
It is a desperate call that I make here. Wikispecies is doing wrong, many french admin think so, and I can't let it happen without reacting. I already posted something here, without success.
Wikispecies has for purpose to provide the classification of taxons, right?
But each taxon has a different content and parents depending on the classification. And there are a lot of classifications for each taxons.:

• Here is a small list of those classifications.
• Here is an perfect sample that shows that a taxon name doesn't mean much if you don't provide the classification name.
• commons:Category:Liliopsida Here is a sample that commons now provides the classification. And of course, there are classical classification and phylogenetic classifications.

1. From what I understand in reading your articles, wikispecies provides only one classification for each taxon (in wikifrance, we provide 1 classical and 1 phylogenetical classif per taxon)
2. But you never provide the classification followed.

I think it is urgent that you provide the classification followed by each article in the article. You will discover that all your articles follow different classification.
Look at Liliopsida. It is a total shame. The classification is not provided. The reason is that nobody ever described it that way. Cheers Liné1 06:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please rename me

Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to do it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes 08:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I see it was done by User:Maxim --Kempm 11:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)