User:Dukkips

02/03/2020 I am working on wiki species. The obvious question is what and why do we need wikispecies? Wikispecies are all about a catalog of all the species which are available. The actual version of the project has been started in the year 2004 with the help of biologists across the world. Generally, the biologists who classify new species publish in few specialized journals due to which no one has a record of how many times the species have been recorded. With the help of this, we can say that if a species has been recorded then there would be no of another entry for the same.

What is the structure of the catalog and how is determined? Based on the source provided in the wiki the structure is provided by grouping hierarchy, name distribution, and ecological environments. I feel that we do grouping based on categories. 1.Land a.carnivores b.Omnivores c.Herbivores 2.Aerial 3.Marine 4.Rare species 5.Special (National animals depending on the country) 6.Also, based on Habitat and much more.

On the whole, we have around 1.8 Million Species, which is nearly impossible to get the data. So we'd have to figure out a way to get through this so that we can get a workable solution. Regarding the dataset required for this, I am still working on it.