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| logo = [[Image:WikiSpecies.svg|100px|The current Wikispecies logo]]

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| caption = Screenshot of species.wikimedia.org home page on 3 May 2011

| url = {{URL|https://species.wikimedia.org/}}

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| type = Species directory

| registration = Optional

| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]

| author = [[:species:User:Benedikt|Benedikt Mandl]] (proposed project in 2004); [[Jimmy Wales]] and the Wikimedia community

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'''Wikispecies''' is a [[wiki]]-based online project supported by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]. Its aim is to create a comprehensive [[freeopen content]] catalogue of all [[species]]; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public. [[Jimmy Wales]] stated that editors are not required to [[fax]] in their [[Academic degree|degrees]], but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience.<ref>{{cite journal |year=2005 |title=Calling all taxonomists |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=307 |issue=5712 |pages=1021 |doi=10.1126/science.307.5712.1021a|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=AS>{{cite news |title=WikiSpecies |newspaper=[[American Scientist|American Scientist Online]] |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050430034914/http://www.americanscientist.org/template/SiteOfTheWeekTypeDetail/assetid/43122 |url=http://www.americanscientist.org/template/SiteOfTheWeekTypeDetail/assetid/43122 |archivedatearchive-date=30 April 2005 |date=25 April 2005 |publisher=Sigma Xi |accessdateaccess-date=3 February 2014}}</ref> Wikispecies is available under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]] and [[Creative Commons licenses|CC BY-SA 3.0]].

Started in September 2004, with [[biologist]]s acrossaround the world invited to contribute,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Peplow|first=Mark|date=15 March 2005|title=Species list reaches half-million mark|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|doi=10.1038/news050314-6|doi-access=free}}</ref> the project had grown to a framework encompassing the [[Linnaean taxonomy]] with links to [[Wikipedia]] articles on individual species by April 2005.<ref name=AS />

[[:species:User:Benedikt|Benedikt Mandl]] co-ordinatedcoordinated the efforts of several people who arewere interested in getting involved with the project and contacted potential supporters in the early summer of 2004. Databases were evaluated and the administrators contacted,; some of them have agreed on providing their data for Wikispecies. Mandl defined two major tasks:

Advantages and disadvantages were widely discussed by the wikimedia-I mailing list. The board of directors of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] voted by 4 to 0 in favor of the establishment of a Wikispecies. The project was launched in August 2004 and is hosted at species.wikimedia.org. It was officially merged tointo a sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation on September 14, 2004.

* On May 20, 2007, the project exceeded 100,000 articles with a total of 5,495 registered users.

* On September 8, 2008, the project exceeded 150,000 articles with a total of 9,224 registered users.

* On October 30, 2018, the project reached 600,000 articles, and a total of 1.12 million pages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics|title=Statistics|publisher=Wikispecies|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

As a database for taxonomy and nomenclature, Wikispecies comprises taxon pages, and additionally pages about synonyms, taxon authorities, taxonomical publications, type material, and institutions or repositories holding type specimen.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Page_types|title=Wikispecies:Page types|publisher=Wikispecies|access-date=2018-11-01|archive-date=2018-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730202635/https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Page_types|url-status=live}}</ref>

Wikispecies has disabled local upload and asks users to use images from [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]]. Wikispecies does not allow the use of content that does not conform to a free license.

* [[species:Wikispecies:CharterCommunity_Portal|TheSpecies WikispeciesCommunity CharterPortal]], written by Wales.

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