[Taxacom] Have you named a taxon?
Andy Mabbett
andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Sat Mar 18 08:31:04 CDT 2017
On 18 March 2017 at 11:26, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
> My own interest is in using Wikispecies is the following:
[...]
There is no point any of us work on on Wikispecies, or other Wikimedia
projects, if the results are not useful to data consumers like you.
> It would be nice to be able to feed the links to BioStor, BHL, and DOIs back
> to Wikispecies as well. At the moment the biggest obstacle I face is writing
> code to parse all the different ways contributors use to write references
> (and reference templates) in Wikispecies.
It would be useful if you, and other data consumers, could outline
your needs on Wikispecies. In this case, I will cite your post there.
> But I realise this use case is not
> necessarily high on the agenda of Wikispecies contributors.
It is for some of us.
It's also worth bearing in mind the Wikicite initiative:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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