The reason I am asking is that just now I ran across a species where, for some unknown reason (mistake???), someone deleted all the taxon photos while adding a new one.
I was able to go through the history and reconstruct all of the photos except for one, which lists Wikimedia as the source, and therefore there is no observation ID which I can use to search. The photo still has a photo page.
(Also, I think I’m going to create a feature request for the photo IDs on the taxon history page to be links. It would make a tedious process only about half as tedious. Edit: Apparently only some of them don’t have links??? I’m so confused.)
Just a personal preference, but I don’t necessarily see Wikimedia as a source for the best images of any given taxon. Sometimes they have good ones, sometimes not. Hopefully, there will be a sufficient number of reasonable quality images of a species from iNaturalist to add to the taxon page. I prefer being able to link a photo to a specific iNat observation. Such a link is more obscure for photos derived from 3rd party sources and the latter type may lack sufficient metadata or provenance to be truly useful.
“Part of a troll attack” is labeled as “solution” on this but it does not answer the question: Is it still possible to import taxon photos from Wikimedia? There have been quite a few threads recently where the proposed “solution” does not address the original question. I think technically it should still be possible since Wikimedia Commons is still listed as a source of pictures, but it would probably create a duplicate photo page on iNat?
Sorry, it’s hard to follow what the issue is based on your explanation without examples or screenshots. There have been no changes to Wikimedia imports as far as I am aware, and I was able to see photos from Wikimedia to add to taxon pages just now.
Okay fine. I thought one of the rules of the forums was not to call out specific users, and it’s impossible for me to give a specific example without doing that, because if you look at the history page it’s very obvious what account I am talking about.
How do I get this photo on that page? I finally found the drop-down that allows you to import images directly from Wikimedia Commons, but will that create a duplicate of the imported image? Or will it recognize that the image has already been imported?
It’s frustrating that there is no obvious way for me as an average user to tell the difference between a troll attack (that I should contact staff about right away) and someone who made a mistake one time (that I should treat kindly). There may be no good solution to this, I just needed to get that frustration out.
It is kind of weird that other people can declare an answer the solution. I don’t understand how that works at all. Fortunately, I appear to be able to un-check the box.
That’s how I figured out what happened! But when I checked out the profile of the account that did it, there was no obvious sign that they were a troll. (They did some identifications that seemed legit to me.) But I guess they must have been, because the account was suspended.