I was curious to see how many and how regularly common names were being added to iNat, here are the results for anyone else interested :) Common names Jan-Feb 2023 Lexicons and name counts from the Darwin Core archives exported on the first of each month. Top Lexicons Lexicons with 1000 or more nam…

[image] lawnranger: Another ‘bad’ lexicon There still doesn’t need to be both “Aou 4 Letter Codes” and “AOU 4-Letter Codes.” These need to be combined and the duplicates removed. [image] lawnranger: ‘Bad’ lexicons strike again In that Slovenčina should be Slovak. [image] egordon88…

[image] DianaStuder: Zulu 28, Xhosa 42 and Setswana 33 from Southern Africa. Oh and Afrikaans 16 All 11 of the official languages in South Africa have lexicons on iNat, though not quite as well represented as those 4. There are also a few of the unofficial ones too. [image] DianaStuder: I…

[image] lawnranger: Names ‘transferred’ out of a ‘bad’ lexicon into a ‘good’ one will still have the original creation date. New copies of existing common names are re-created on the output taxa as part of taxon changes, there are about 1000 of these names created during January. Saw weird th…

Top Lexicons Lexicons with 1000 or more names # Lexicon Names - # Lexicon Names 1 English 267,713 | 28 4,604 2 Chinese (Simplified) 109,758 | 29 Turkish 3,493 3 Czech 79,263 | 30 Zulu 3,447 4 Japanese 68,510 | 31 Catalan 3,413 5 Spanish 62,174 | 32 Slovenian 3,370 6 Russian 60,289 …

Thanks. [image] lawnranger: |22|Lithuanian|13,526|||49|Aou 4 Letter Codes|1,234| |23|Italian|13,287|||50|AOU 4-Letter Codes|1,138| Those four-letter-codes, maybe we should ask the contributors if these are two different lexicons? About Zulu and isiZulu: https://groups.google.com/g/inatur…

They’re the same thing. I thought there was an AOU line in the cleanup script which was run about a week ago, so was surprised to see they hadn’t been merged. I’ll need to have another closer look.

Is there a way to see a list of all lexicons?

In another topic started by Marina is a link to a file with all lexicons of 1-1-2023 but you can also download de DWCA or check the list with lexcions when adding a common name. [image] lawnranger: I’ll need to have another closer look. The 4-letter codes disappeared from the -add-common-nam…

Top Lexicons Lexicons with 1000 or more names # Lexicon Names - # Lexicon Names 1 English 269,656 | 28 4,423 2 Chinese (Simplified) 113,091 | 29 Turkish 3,909 3 Czech 79,278 | 30 Zulu 3,458 4 Japanese 68,685 | 31 Catalan 3,418 5 Spanish 62,500 | 32 Slovenian 3,380 6 Russian 61,670 …

The state of common names

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optilete June 21, 2023, 7:33pm 23

This is a known issue, the lexicon will be added if you wait long enough. It is solved in the end: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/155941/taxon_names/new https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/it-seems-khanty-language-is-missing-from-possible-languages/37887/2

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The state of common names

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