I’m using iNaturalist with my kids (ages 7 and 10), and it’s very frustrating for them that most of the names, even for very common species, are in English, not Norwegian. Local names for a very large number of species in Norwegian an many other languages are available in The Encyclopedia of Life (…

I dont know if you have figured this out or not, but because the site is not translated into Norwegian, to get any Norwegian names entered to show, there is a setting you need to enable. On the web client, under your drop down icon in the top right, click the arrow and choose Account Settings, about…

I should add that the display of common names in a desired language also depends on what client you are using. On the web client it seems to work perfectly, I’ve never really seen any issue. On the mobile client it can be inconsistent, and is clearly not fully implemented correctly.

[image] cmcheatle: On the web client it seems to work perfectly, I’ve never really seen any issue The emails iNaturalist sends are also inconsistent but I agree, they the web version seems to show the correct names. Did you find out that if you choose ‘Search external name providers’ and se…

I can confirm that this works well for the website, I hve set my region to Germany, but the web interface itself to English. However for the app this does not work very well. After changing the setting on the website one also needs to log out and log in again in the app for the changes to take effe…

[image] optilete: Did you find out that if you choose ‘Search external name providers’ and search for Norwegian names also add common names? So if CoL has a common name that is not yet on iNat this will be added to iNat? I will try this the next time I´ll see a name that is missing

Yes. But I still think that it would be better if more common names are added automatically for all languagues in Europe. Maybe a job can be scheduled that adds for each country in Europe the common names for each taxon that occurs in that country if it does not have a common name in iNaturalist.

Yes, I had already set that option. Best, LN

The results are the same in the web version. The “Search external name providers” does not help, since it presupposes that we already know the name of the species.

Does Norway have an online biodiversity database / portal like Artdatabanken in Sweden or Allearter in Denmark?

Yes, we have artsdatabanken.no, with links to local names from latin ones. But EOL would be a more general solution.

Local names import - Norwegian - #19 by bouteloua - General

Topic		Replies	Views	Activity
Create a system for importing common names Feature Requests translation , common-names	10	2291	May 30, 2019
Select language for common names Feature Requests implemented	39	6876	October 31, 2023
Correct common name for my language not shown Bug Reports web	6	519	March 9, 2022
Why do I see some taxa in my native language and others in English? General	25	4426	August 8, 2019
iNaturalist language & common names General	12	1407	July 5, 2020

Create a system for importing common names

Feature Requests

translation , common-names

10

2291

May 30, 2019

Select language for common names

Feature Requests

implemented

39

6876

October 31, 2023

Correct common name for my language not shown

Bug Reports

web

6

519

March 9, 2022

Why do I see some taxa in my native language and others in English?

General

25

4426

August 8, 2019

iNaturalist language & common names

General

12

1407

July 5, 2020

Local names import - Norwegian

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