As discussed here , I wonder if someone could clarify the process by which taxon pages are matched to Wikipedia articles when the latter are created. Is this an automated or a manual process?

We use the Wikipedia title field if it’s set, or the taxon name to retrieve a Wikipedia article. If one doesn’t exist, or there’s no redirect, then no match is made and we may fall back to a different describer. If we get a Wikipedia response, we cache it for 24 hours .

Adding Wikipedia links when an article is created about a taxon

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bouteloua January 3, 2020, 9:07pm 6

There’s a feature request for that here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-wikidata-to-link-to-appropriate-wikipedia-articles-in-all-languages/5538/

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Adding Wikipedia links when an article is created about a taxon

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