ویکی‌گونه:درباره

همچنین ویکی‌گونه را در ویکی‌پدیا ببینید.

ویکی‌گونه؛ چیست و چرا؟

زیست‌شناسانی که گونه‌های جدید را طبقه‌بندی می کنند، معمولا در نشریات تخصصی منتشر می کنند، که منجر به افزایش میزان اطلاعاتی می شود که هیچ کسی نظری در آن ندارد. حتی متخصصان در زمینه‌های بسیار تخصصی اغلب متوجه نمی‌شوند که یک گونه به طور رسمی دو بار، سه بار و یا حتی بیشتر ثبت شده است.

Therefore, it is not known how many species are known – and this is just as ridiculous as it sounds. We are not talking about all species that exist on earth – but simply the total number of species that

have already been recorded in scientific publications.

Nobody knows how many there are. Expert 'A' might think that there be 17 000 known annelids, but expert 'B' believes the number to be 20 000; that happens due to the inexistence of a central registration-process and of a database or reference directory whereby to browse information about the current state of knowledge on a particular species.

Vision

A central, extensive database for taxonomy is what Wikispecies should become: an open, extensive database for scientists and the public (including citizen scientists) to reflect upon the diversity of life on our planet Earth; because life is public domain.

There are an increasing number of large-scale, science-funded projects, all of which aim to achieve more or less the same thing. Examples include the Catalogue of Life (CoL) and the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), among others. The main problem with most of those projects is that they are not open to editing, and so the inevitably many errors are "locked in" and difficult to fix.

چگونه می‌توانم در ویکی‌گونه مشارکت کنم؟

If you want to add contents to Wikispecies, but don't know how, have a look at our Help:Contents section where we explain how simple it is to add data to Wikispecies.

Questions about our policy regarding Wikispecies? See the Wikispecies:Charter, which explains a bit more what this is about.