On 03/06/13 11:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Ting Chen, 03/06/2013 11:29:
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

Yes,

and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten
tomatos flying for this naive question ;-) )?

no.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2013/02#Include_Wikispecies_into_Wikidata>

<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/thread.html>

TL;DR: Wikidata offers only a partial way to store information and no
real interface at all for browsing it.

What if this interface would exist? I believe it could be made really quickly and easily.

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