How to filter my observations to give the observations with no Wikipedia article

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I want to find my observations that do not have a wikipedia page. Can someone help with a suitable url please?

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I can’t remember if anyone posted a tool for doing this, but you could, within a couple minutes:

  • export your observations
  • take the column scientific_name and remove duplicates
  • add the Wikipedia link brackets around the name (=concatenate("[[",A1,"]]"), where A1 is one of the scientific names, apply to the whole column of names
  • copy/paste it into a subpage of your Wikipedia and see which ones are red links (don’t have articles)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hyperik/Ruth's_taxa for the red links.

Links might be red because that taxon has no article at all, or it could be red because it’s there but hosted at the name of a synonym.

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:-)

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-revamped-explore-observations-search-page/8439/135

A bit later, I added a report with taxa missing a Wikipedia page:

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@ruth-palsson

Hello! Here is an HTML report (unzip and double click on “Report.html”) of all the species you observed that lack a Wikipedia page:
http://tbf.me/a/UWaju (on the web site “Transfer Big Files”)

The report looks like this:

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The column “Wikipedia” provides links to the missing pages, for instance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruellia_prostrata

The column “Obs.” provides links to your observation(s), for instance:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=table&verifiable=any&rank=species&user_id=ruth-palsson&taxon_id=168223

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Thanks for this. it’s a great help.

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@ jeanphilippeb, thanks. unfortunately, my antivirus stuff will not let me access that, but I will be with my son in a few days and he will sort it for me,.

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why do you want to know this? are you planning to add a bunch of Wikipedia articles?

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Thank you all of you who contributed your expertise to give an answer. I am currently using Hyperik’s wikipedia list (and that will keep me busy for a while). I used it to create a page for Alectryon subdentatus. And later on I will use the recipe for creating the species list on wiki (where Ruth has an image and where there is no wiki article). Thank you all again.

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if that’s what you all are doing, this might be another way to get similar information: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_observations_species_counts?user_id=ruth-palsson&photo_license=cc0,cc-by,cc-by-sa&options=wikipedia_url

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Thanks @ pisum. it is always good to have more than one way to do something!

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