text: Started in August 2004 , with biologists across 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 .
simplified: It was started in August 2004 , with biologists around the world invited to help . Now , the project has become a good directory listing the Linnaean taxonomy with links to Wikipedia articles on individual species since April 2005 .