Wikispecies

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Founded by:	Wikimedia Board
Status:	Vibrant
Language:	Multilingual
Edit mode:	OpenEdit
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	Multi-license
Main topic:	Life science
Backups:	unknown or dynamic date

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

Founded in September 2004, 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 multilingual conventions of other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects, all Wikispecies language versions are sub-pages of the primary 'Species.Wikimedia.org' domain, in a similar method as the Wikimedia Commons.

Example page

• Homo sapiens

Wiki size:

841,211 article pages see stats

(As of: 2023-06-11)

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
• Wikispecies — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites
• Wikispecies — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikispecies FAQ — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikispecies — at the English Wikipedia
• Wikidata: Wikispecies — at Wikimedia Wikidata
• Pageviews Analysis – Wikispecies - topviews — from Pageviews.WMCloud.org at Wikimedia Toolforge, data available under CC0 1.0
• Pageviews Analysis – Wikispecies - siteviews — from Pageviews.WMCloud.org at Wikimedia Toolforge, data available under CC0 1.0
• WikiStats v2.2 – Wikispecies (Wikimedia Special Projects - id: 3) — from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
• Wikistats v2 – Wikispecies – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v1 – summary – Wikispecies at a glance December 2018 — published 2019-02-01 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v1 – tables – Wikispecies statistics — final report from 2019-01-31 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v1 – charts – Wikispecies statistics — final report from 2019-01-31 (public domain) by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• 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
• Wikiscan statistics – Wikispecies — independent statistics website about Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) hosted wiki sites (CC-BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org (founded 2011)
• Wikiscan – current day articles statistics – Wikispecies — most active pages, independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (CC BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org
• Wikiscan – user statistics – Wikispecies — most active users, independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (CC BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org
• Wikiscan – tables – Wikispecies — tabulated output by all namespaces (including talk) by year, independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (CC BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org
• Wikispecies – Admin Stats – XTools — show statistics of admin actions, active Administrator statistics in the last ≈30 days; at XTools.WMCloud.org, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud VPS (WMCVPS)
• Wikispecies-l — mailing list at Lists.Wikimedia.org
• Wikispecies-l archives — mailing list archived by month, at Lists.Wikimedia.org
• Wikispecies Twitter feed

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current Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) logo

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF), founded 20 June 2003, is the wiki company and non-profit charitable organization[1] responsible for a very large number (over 900 in total) of very active collaborative user-generated wiki sites, which are grouped together by primary subject and known as a 'project'; as well as the wiki engine software initially developed by themselves, known as MediaWiki. The Wikimedia Foundations' major wiki projects started with Wikipedia (encyclopedia), and subsequently expanded to include Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikibooks (open content textbooks), Wikisource (free content primary-source and secondary-source texts), Wikinews (news source), Wikiversity (open learning community), Wikispecies (free species directory), and many others as listed below. Most of these 'projects' have separate wiki site versions written in many different languages. There is also the Wikimedia Commons (shared multilingual repository for documents, images, videos, and other media and text files), and the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (multilingual coordination of issues common to all Wikimedia projects). The Wikimedia Foundations' global reach is nurtured in its Incubator, where all new language versions for all projects are initiated and developed before being launched as a new separate wiki site. The Foundations' most recent major multi-language wiki project, Wikivoyage (a 'travelpedia'), was inducted to WMF in late 2012 (having being independently established in 2006). Also launched in 2012 was Wikidata (a major multilingual central space knowledge base for structured data used on all WMF projects). The newest WMF project is Wikifunctions, launched in mid 2023, is a library of code functions in many different programming languages.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Furthermore, the Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, granted April 2005, and headquartered at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco County, State of California 94104, United States of America.[2]

All Wikimedia Foundation projects, wiki sites, portals, and websites ^{(view • edit • talk)}

Wikipedia • Wiktionary • Wikiquote • Wikibooks • Wikisource • Wikinews • Wikiversity • Wikispecies • MediaWiki.org • Commons • Commons Archive • Wikidata • Wikidata Test • Wikivoyage • Meta-Wiki • Incubator • Wikitech • Wikitech Test • Wikifunctions • Wikimedia Foundation •

Chapters • Thematic organizations • User groups • Wikimania • Outreach • Labs • Toolserver • Toolforge • Statistics • Phabricator • Beta Cluster • Downloads • Analytics • Software Releases • Documentation • Lists • Blog • Shop • Donate • Login • Diff • API Portal • Developer Portal • Global Search

original Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) logo from 2003

subsequent Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) logo

Wikimedia Foundation private and management wikis

Board • BoardGovCom • Foundation Governance • Office • Executive • Internal • Affiliations Committee • OTRS • Collab • Movement Roles • Audit Committee • Search Committee • Advisory Board • Quality • Usability Initiative • Strategic Planning • SP-Com • Stewards • CheckUser • Advisors • Thank You • Vote

Wikimedia Foundation hosting services

Wikimedia Cloud Services • Wikimedia Cloud VPS

External links

• www.Wikimedia.org — Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) portal to all of the major WMF projects
• WikimediaFoundation.org — original public wiki of Wikimedia Foundation, closed July 2018, now a WordPress blog
• Wikimedia Foundation Vision — at the WikimediaFoundation.org blog
• Wikimedia Foundation – Terms of Use — at Foundation.Wikimedia.org, the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki
• Wikimedia movement — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Complete list of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Template: Table of Wikimedia projects — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• List of Wikimedia projects by size (sortable) — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• SiteMatrix table of all Wikimedia wikis — listed by language, project, inter-project link, and interwiki, Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, along with list of all private and management wiki
• Toolserver: Wiki server assignments — formerly at Wikimedia Toolserver, now at MediaWiki.org
• Current status Wikimedia Foundation – Core services — public website health status for WMF, Status.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Status
• Wikimedia Statistics – Wikistats – comprehensive statistics by project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia Report Card February 2012 — Wikistats v1 (Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)) published April 2012 by Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – active wikis per project — from creation up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total editors per project — up to October 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total edits per project — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – new articles per project — from creation up to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Wikimedia – total pageviews per project — 2008 to December 2018, Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Page views for Wikimedia wikis – sitemap — Wikistats v1 (public domain) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • 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
  • Page views for Wikimedia, all projects, both sites, normalized, 26 March 2019 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Report card: summaries for Commons and 9 other projects, at a glance December 2018 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
  • Other Projects: edit and revert counts, since start of project, 31 December 2016 — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• Wikistats v2 – all wikis (overview) – Wikimedia Statistics — monthly overviews of reading, contributing, and content; from Wikistats v2 (data available under CC0 1.0); Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics
• WikiStats v2.2 – List of Wikimedia special projects — sortable list table of Wikimedia Foundation wiki sites from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — sortable tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in html output
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in downloadable csv (spreadsheet) output
  • All Wikimedia projects by size — tabulated list of largest WMF wiki sites by 'good' pages, in wikitext (wikitable) output
• Wikiscan statistics — independent statistics website about Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) hosted wiki sites (CC-BY-SA 3.0), at Wikiscan.org (founded 2011)
• Database dump progress — list of live database dumps at Dumps.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Downloads
• Wikimedia Foundation database dumps uploaded to the Internet Archive — by Hydriz at Archive.org
• comScore data on Wikimedia — historical summary from 2010 of comScore data on Wikimedia Foundation sites, from User:Stu at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Wikimedia Interactive Statistics — from Martin Poljak at Wikistatistics.net (public domain), via Archive.org from 2015; archived spapshot at 6 May 2013 from archive.is
• Special Wikimedia Projects by size — sortable list from WikiStats by mutante at S23.org (last updated 11 September 2011, but still useful information), via Archive.org
• plain-text database list of all WMF-hosted wiki sites from all projects — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
• plain-text database list of private WMF wiki sites — at NOC.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia NOC
• Wikimedia Grid Report — multiple detailed performance graphs from Ganglia.Wikimedia.org
• Phabricator — formerly Bugzilla.Wikimedia.org, now Wikimedia Phabricator at Phabricator.Wikimedia.org, for bug reporting, tracking, and software development
• Public Mailing Lists — at Lists.Wikimedia.org from Wikimedia Lists
• #wikimedia-space:matrix.org — Wikimedia space – unofficial Wikimedia Community space Matrix-channel at Matrix.org
• Wikipediocracy — an extensive highly detailed WordPress blog and internet forum exposing the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related Wikimedia projects
• Wikimedia.org site info — from Alexa.com, archived snapshot on 2022-04-01, via Archive.org

Official WMF social media and networking

• Twitter feed
• Facebook page
• Instagram galleries
• LinkedIn profile

Further reading

• Bell, Dan (editor) (August 2009); The Wiki Handbook: THE How To on Wiki, Complete Expert's hints and tips guide by the leading experts, everything you need to know about Wiki; [3]; Emereo Publishing; ISBN 1742441661; paperback; 140 pages.

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