This is my first post to the forum and I’m sorry if the topic makes it seem like a joke. I traded emails with Tony about this last night and now I’m curious: " On Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 9:32 PM iNaturalist Support < help@inaturalist.org > wrote: Hi, As noted at the end of the text in your screenshot,…

Should be fixed now - you might need to close and restart app. For Curators: we just needed to referesh the wikipedia article. Looks like maybe our automatic Wikipedia refresh doesn’t refresh the article summary.

I just checked, and I get the “two vaginas” text like the OP’s screenshot. This is in the Android app, version 1.29.11 (585). It’s not likely to be cached – I’ve never looked up the genus in the app. The iNat web genus description and Wikipedia both have “two species”, and the Wikipedia edit history…

[image] Anyway yeah that sucks. Hope we can find some way to fix it.

Someone thought they were funny https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kalmiopsis&oldid=802161365

I think it’s a cached instance of Wikipedia vandalism.

The taxon page itself on iNat is fine, but the search page still contains the typo, see: https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=kalmiopsis [kalmiopsis] So iNat still has the old version hanging around in a cache somewhere. I’ve changed the post title, not because I think it is incorrect, but beca…

Thanks for tracking that down! Learned something new about Wikipedia too. And I agree with the topic title change, didn’t mean to come across as blunt or inconsiderate.

No worries, I don’t think it was blunt or inconsiderate - just descriptive (though I teach Anatomy and Physiology and realize that my comfort with certain things is higher than for most folks).

I’m getting this thing on the iOS app too. [IMG_3064]

How odd. it seems too obscure to be a target of wikipedia vandalism, but who knows.

Lost some of the text, but no mention of vaginas. Thanks! [Screenshot_20230911-151307_iNaturalist]

Kalmiopsis Typo: Cached Wikipedia Vandalism

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silaseckhardt September 11, 2023, 8:56pm 10

I’m getting this thing on the iOS app too.

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Kalmiopsis Typo: Cached Wikipedia Vandalism

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