There is a wikipedia entry in English and few other languages, but not in, for example, Dutch.
So, when changing the iNat language to Nederlands, the About-tab displays the information of the corresponding English wikipedia article:
As you can see, the text is about the wrong species.
Clicking on the link after ‘EOL’, however, opens the correct species page.
As can be seen in the history, I tried some things to have the English wikipedia article displayed instead, without success.
My three questions are:
why is EOL used here?
why is the incorrect taxon name displayed?
how to change the settings to get the wikipedia article instead?
That doesn’t really explain why the wrong species name is displayed, but the link to the taxon in EOL is correct. And I am not sure if this is something on iNat’s site or something is wrongly implemented in EOL
But if you go to the Article’s section (https://eol.org/pages/52197295/articles) you’ll see that their article is about Symphytum ibericum. So it’s an issue on EoL’s end.
I suspect because the EoL article is in German, so it’s prioritizing something written in German over displaying English Wikipedia.
I doubt it. For better or worse, the best long-term fix would be to make a German Wikipedia article for this species. Maybe second to that would be alerting EoL about the error and having them fix it. It’d be interesting to see if that trickles down to iNat and iNat will start loading the English Wikipedia article.
