I noticed recently that a lot of taxa has missing names in Hungarian and Serbian. Even well-known, high level taxa, like the Legumes family , does not have these translations, while the corresponding Wikidata entry Q44448 has these (and more) languages in the translations section on top. Additionall…

Can you change the name of the topic to make clear you are talking about common names of taxa? I expected translation of the website… https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-adding-of-common-names/23001/16 ( with template ) Probably more topics about it and also a feature request: https://forum.in…

I am wondering how to keep the common names updated in time. If a common name changes, e.g. because of a taxon split https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes?taxon_id=144242 , how do you keep the common names updated? Also a tool to compare iNaturalist with Wikidata could be helpfull. Maybe as sour…

Also a tool to compare iNaturalist with Wikidata could be helpfull. Oh, that’s a good idea! I can look into something like that. On that note, how often is inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip updated? EDIT: I just found on https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export , that it is updated weekly. …

I am wondering how to keep the common names updated in time. I think for starters, we just wouldn’t. If a taxon split happens, the sources of the taxon split would probably contain the English common name, and the scientific name, and the newly introduced taxa would just not have any common names…

@carrieseltzer asked me to comment, so at the risk of getting burned by the flame and squashing updates about this thread ad infinitum, my opinion is that bulk importing common names from Wikidata is a bad idea because of the sourcing issues Cassi described at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reliabl…

[image] kueda: I would try to restrict yourself to Wikipedia’s own definition of a reliable source … which does not include Wikipedia itself, or Wikidata. So if Wikidata used a reliable source for the common names ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1896 ?) , Wikidata can be used. It gi…

Thank you, I think this puts me in the right direction. So here is what I have so far. In the interest of speeding things up, I created a small userscript (to be used with TamperMonkey / GreeseMonkey), that adds this “WikiSpecies: Sync Translations” link that you’ll see on the right: [Screenshot] …

I had to add probably thousands of names, it’s not really hard to do one-by-one if you already have a spreadsheet, but even without it it’s pretty easy, iNat lacks many names from many languages, but you mentioned translation coverage which is separate from names and only refers to website itself (a…

[image] marina_gorbunova: add probably thousands of names Maybe 9013 common names, position 19 on the leader board…

[image] attilaolah: Thank you, I think this puts me in the right direction. The direction I was trying to put you in was Don’t add names from Wikidata Don’t automate the process of adding names from Wikidata Just add names the slow, manual way, and think about whether each name is actually …

Can I bulk-import translations of common names of taxa?

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Can I bulk-import translations of common names of taxa?

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