Use Wikidata for place names and Wikipedia descriptions

[kueda]

@pisum

there’s been some talk here and in other discussions about using Wikidata as way to link iNaturalist places, but i’m not aware of any serious steps toward thinking through pros and cons and what that would actually look like if implemented.

FWIW, one impediment is that I personally find the Wikidata SPARQL API pretty mystifying. If someone could provide a working example of how one uses it to, say, retrieve a Wikipedia page URL for a taxon given an iNat taxon ID (or s/taxon/place/ to keep it on-topic), that would help me out a lot. @tobyyy, maybe you could provide an example?