Wikispecies

Wikispecies – free species directory – is an open, free  of species. The goal of the wiki site is to become an extensive  for  as a tool for. It covers, , Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, and all other forms of .

Founded in September, by March 2006, Wikispecies had versions in thirty-two (32) different languages, and by October 2012, that had increased to sixty-seven (67) languages. However, unlike the conventions of other  (WMF) projects, all Wikispecies language versions are sub-pages of the primary 'Species.Wikimedia.org' domain, in a similar method as the Wikimedia Commons.

(As of: 2023-06-11)
 * ''Example page
 * Homo sapiens
 * ''See also
 * Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)
 * ''External links
 * Meetings/September 5, 2004 — WMF board meeting to discuss proposal for Wikispecies becoming part of Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
 * Wikispecies: Charter


 * — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * — at the English Wikipedia
 * — at Wikimedia Wikidata


 * Page views for other projects, raw data, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics


 * Wikispecies-l — mailing list at Lists.Wikimedia.org
 * Wikispecies-l archives — mailing list archived by month, at Lists.Wikimedia.org
 * Wikispecies Twitter feed