How do Wikipedia pages end up in the About section of iNaturalist pages, both on web and in app? I am an iNatter and Wikipedian, and when I find cool things on my walks with iNat, if they don’t have a Wikipedia page already, I will often make that page so that the next person will have an easier way…

I believe it would be via the corresponding wikidata item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28464247 and its preferred link would be to the genus page at https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/82521-Aetole

Curator here, when we edit a species or create a new one we can either enter the name of a wikipedia page to display or we can check a box to automatically use a wikipedia page with the same name as a taxon. If you made a wikipedia page and it’s not automatically showing up for the taxon then you ca…

Thanks! What about the app? At least in iOS, the Wikipedia blurb often doesn’t show for newer articles.

I know that iNat caches the wikipedia pages, but how often do we update the cached version? @tiwane

If you enter the name manually, it only displays that specific language for all languages in iNaturalist. This isn’t really ideal. See also: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/show-wikipedia-template-if-no-article-exists-for-a-given-taxon-id-and-language-in-wikidata/23381

How do Wikipedia pages get on "About" sections?

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pisum June 22, 2024, 11:56pm 6

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-wikipedia-links-when-an-article-is-created-about-a-taxon/9084/12

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How do Wikipedia pages get on "About" sections?

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