Could you please provide the link to the page for that insect (or the scientific name), a curator will then be able to look into the issue in more detail.
Default language is English. But I changed the display name from “Common” to “Scientific”.
That works, now it shows the Latin name.
Great, thank you very much
The issue is caused by users who have been adding traditional chinese names and also added Hong Kong, Macoa and Taiwan as places. This then overrules the user selected language.
That is OK as most users in Hong Kong are Chinese speakers. Changed the display name from “Common” to “Scientific”, will work for most.
Anyway problem solved. Thanks agaim
I’ve had what may be the same or a related issue, and I’m unsure if it would also be solved by the solution here.
I don’t live in Asia, although sometimes ID there via Identify or Explore filtered location searches. Anyway, I don’t remember if the issue occurred when I was even IDing in Asia, or another continent. I also ID mostly in the US and Oceania.
The issue was the About section of some taxa pages were in what I then-thought were Japanese characters (unsure now, after reading this). If I then tried to right click the page and use Google Translate to English, that wouldn’t work either, because it would change the scientific/taxon name to some incorrect, very unrelated word. So, the issue also wasn’t originally caused by using Google Translate. I also wasn’t adding/changing any taxa names at the time. It happened about 5 times over a few months.
Just wondering if this is related. If it’s not, just ask and I’ll create a separate bug report.
An additional complication is I think a curator (responding to a taxon flag) believed some of the Wiki pages displayed on iNat taxa page-About sections were originally (permanently) in another language all along (external to iNat). I don’t know whether or not that’s true though.