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Wikispecies is a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation with a great potential. It is meant to become an open, free directory of species. This will cover Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us. So far we have 91,040 articles.

Wikispecies is an open, wiki-based species directory and central database of taxonomy. It is aimed at the needs of scientific users rather than general users.

Wikispecies aims to feed into the Wikipedias. Features such as cross-wiki transclusion are being worked on to make this easier. Integrating Wikispecies into Wikimedia, rather than it being a separate project, prevents a fork.

Wikispecies is a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation that anyone can edit with a great potential use to students and researchers. It is an open, free directory of species. This project will cover Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us. As of January 2007 the project has over 85,000 [1] articles. Contents.

Wikispecies is available in 131 different languages which are also licensed

Announced 5 September 2004.

So far we have 91,040 articles.

In August 2004, the Wikimedia Foundation released the new project www.WikiSpecies.org. This website was created to provide an open source forum for taxonomic and biological information.