Popup Wikipedia previews extension

[underthesea]

Hello!
I recently wrote an open-source Firefox add-on that loads Wikipedia preview popups on iNaturalist. Basically, a Wiki icon appears next to every taxon link, and when you mouse over that icon, a popup preview from the Wikipedia article appears. It first checks English Wikipedia, then Wikidata, then finally Wikispecies if neither of the former have an entry for the taxon in question. I wrote this to make it easier for me to identify which taxa on Wikipedia are in need of images, but it’s also just a nice way to quickly learn about a taxon and see the link to Wikipedia right away.

It’s on the Firefox add-on store here, and the source code is here on Github.

I would publish it for Chrome too, but you have to pay $5 to register as a developer there.

[suntooth]

Finally, an extension that is for Firefox but not Chrome, rather than the other way around!

All jokes aside, this is great :]

[ppinat]

It does not work on all iNat pages when your language is not English. Example: Set your language to German and try the extension on the page of a certain observation: then it is good, but on the page of all your observations it searches for example for the Wikipedia entry “Art Erannis defoliaria” instead of “Erannis defoliaria”. The same problem in the Taxonomy tree.

[underthesea]

Ah yeah, I’ll have to parse the structure of each language of iNaturalist (I’m assuming that’s the issue) in order to get the extension working for them too. Sorry it doesn’t work for you yet!