Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Screenshot Screenshot of species.wikimedia.org home page on 3 May 2011
Website type	Species directory
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Creator	Benedikt Mandl (proposed project in 2004); Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia community
Website	species.wikimedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	2004

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Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalog of all species; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. Jimmy Wales stated that editors are not required to fax in their degrees, but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience. Wikispecies is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC BY-SA 4.0.

Started in September 2004, with biologists around the world invited to contribute, the project had grown to a framework encompassing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Wikipedia articles on individual species by April 2005.