User:Bggoldie~specieswiki/Пясъчник

Template based taxobox and hierarchy

I have not invented this. It was available on bg.wiki before I joined Wikipedia. The effort here is just a translation (among the very few editors at Wikispecies there are no Bulgarians) for demonstration.

Taxo-templates:

• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo begin
  • User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo begin Plantae
  • User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo begin Animalia
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo picture
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo classification begin
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo taxon
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo classification end
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo taxa
• User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Taxo end

Templates usage (as in bg.wiki):

• simple: User:Bggoldie/Пясъчник/Beta vulgaris

Here is my idea - current hierarchical templates approach combined with template-only taxobox. Each rank-template includes the upper rank and adds only its data. The recursive inclusion of templates propagates the information while test pages illustrate the result.

• template-tree:

  Plantae: template, test

  Magnoliophyta: template, test

  Magnoliopsida: template, test

  Caryophyllales: template, test

  Amaranthaceae: template, test

  Chenopodioideae: template, test

  Beta: template, test

  Beta vulgaris: test

  Rosales: template

  Caryophyllidae: template, test

Proof-of-concept scenario:

• the template for Familia Amaranthaceae was switched from ordo Caryophyllales to Rosales and back. Lower-rank taxa templates (Chenopodioideae, Beta) and their corresponding test visualization pages got updated without any modification.
• the template for subclass Caryophyllidae was created afterwards. Its inclusion in Caryophyllales also was propagated.

Feel free to play around with all those templates. They are made to be a sandbox ;)