In cases where there is a Wikipedia article that shares the name of a taxa but does not cover it, trying to remove the content seems problematic. You can of course check to not auto-populate the content, which should leave it blank, or default to the EOL content, but in practice, removing the check…

Ok, I just made it so unchecking the “auto description” box will simply not show any content. What it will show is a message saying that site curators have temporarily blocked Wikipedia content for this page, and that the remedy is to fix wikipedia or to bug the curators some more.

I changed it to “Maira (fly)”. Even if that page didn’t yet exist on WP, you could change it to that “in advance” of its creation.

Every taxon on iNaturalist should have a corresponding Wikipedia article or redirect, so I wouldn’t consider that a “hack” per se. Relying on iNat curators to know what the future Wikipedia article title would be is problematic though.

Yes, it should also not be assumed that iNat contributors know how to or are willing to create Wikipedia content. That being said, this was more about the iNat site, if you choose the show nothing configuration option, then the resulting behaviour should be to show nothing. Right now, that is not a…

For context, I added the Auto description checkbox to handle situations where we wanted to quickly hide totally irrelevant content, but it was only ever meant as a stopgap measure to be used until someone updates Wikipedia, so If we’re going to show the Auto description checkbox then it should wor…

FWIW, I’m an en.Wikipedia user of (too) many years’ experience, and I’m happy to provide help if anyone’s having trouble getting new taxon descriptions into the site. Validly published taxa are “presumed notable” in Wikipedia, so they shouldn’t get deleted.

@kueda - I’m not sure the fix worked entirely. I want to edit this taxa : https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/173661-Elater The wikipedia article is at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elater_(beetle) When I remove the check box so it does not try to load https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elater When I …

The checkbox stays checked, just change the name of the Wikipedia article title when it’s disambiguated there.

Did that change, or am I remembering incorrectly ?

I think it used to work either way, checked or unchecked, if you entered a new Wikipedia article title…but not sure on that.

Inability to remove Wikipedia content from About section

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cmcheatle February 10, 2019, 4:32pm 3

It would be nice to not have to rely on hacks like that, if you configure it to show nothing, it should show nothing.

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