Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive open 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 degrees, but that submissions will have to pass muster with a technical audience. Wikispecies is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and CC BY-SA 3.0. Started in September 2004, with biologists around the world invited to contribute, the project had grown a framework encompassing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Wikipedia articles on individual species by April 2005. More information...
According to PR-model, species.wikimedia.org is ranked 2,167th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,242nd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before baseball-almanac.com and after thegamer.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.