Kanonkas
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I see Maxim was going to direct any questions to me,[1] so fire away. There's no formal adoption system here (because everyone either knows everything, or doesn't have a clue). I see that you're a regular Wikipedia and Commons user, and wiki-language skills will be very valuable here because we use templates, bold text, italic, and interwiki every single page. But here's my first question: Are you a biologist (or at least know a bit about bio)? This will simplify things if you're a biologist because I don't have to spend half an hour explaining what is taxonomy. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- I would strongly recommend you to be very familiar with biological classification and binomial name. In Wikispecies, all articles are in their latin species name. For example, instead of having an article called Tiger, we have an article of Panthera tigris. Inside the page, if the subject is genus or below (aka: genus, species, subspecies), it has to be in italic. OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)