After realizing that many Italian common names of North American bird species are missing in iNat, I came across this tutorial explaining how to edit them manually.
The process is great but error prone and labor intensive at scale, and I wonder if there’s a way of populating common names from an external source programmatically. Wikidata aggregates common names from a variety of official catalogs/databases and it would be quite straightforward to populate the iNat database with the right data provenance across multiple languages if there was a way to do this in batches.
On a minor side note, the formatting of a taxon’s common name in a taxon page should respect the capitalization provided in the Names table instead of overriding it. “Quaglia Della California” is grammatically incorrect in Italian (the name is correctly captured in the Taxonomy page as “Quaglia della California”)
Thanks for the pointers, @optilete. My question is not so much about common names in general, but about the possibility of adding them programmatically via the API.
