I already set my preference to show local name (Indonesia). But sometimes it failed to show. [image] In this example : Mozambique Tilapia should be “Mujair” Betta Fishes should be “Cupang” Both species already have its own Indonesian local-name entry.

This is something that I’ve made some trials and tests… The problem is that even though there’s an Indonesian Name for that taxon… [image] That name should also be set with an associated priority Place, if you don’t have the entire iNat website on that language (no Indonesian now, I think) [ima…

[image] aricafoix: So I don’t know if anyone can go and edit local names, but if you add Indonesia to Place and save, that should work for what you need Only site curators may edit existing names (which I have done for this species), all users can create new common names, but editing is restr…

Well, it’s true that in multilingual countries can be more problematic, although if two lexicons are given a country as a place, the name will be like “Queltehue” aka “Tero”. I keep thinking that, at least for countries with just one main lexicon associated, it’d save the hassle to associate maaany …

Since this isn’t technically a bug, I’m going to close this topic and direct people to some of the relevant feature requests: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/select-language-for-common-names/5430 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/run-job-to-associate-translated-common-names-to-places/3964v https://f…

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Topic		Replies	Views
Default local names sometimes appear sometimes not? General question	5	492	May 6, 2020
When adding common names set the language the website/app is in Feature Requests	7	590	December 13, 2019
Allow non-curators to associate an existing common name with a Place Feature Requests web , declined	18	1251	December 18, 2024
Local Language Issues General question	5	186	August 9, 2024
Common name language and place prioritization General question	6	1280	June 9, 2019

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