Not sure if this is properly classed as a bug report or a feature request. The system that allows curators to manually establish a link to a Wikipedia page with a different name than the taxon in cases where disambiguation is required seems to break down when you run the site in a language other tha…

i think this has been implemented in https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/commit/29ec770e47dec9de4b9e65e1293cb4c1e49ab7de . can anyone confirm?

This would be another instance where linking up with Wikidata would make more sense than duplicating effort.

I just encountered one of those. I switched it off for now, but I’m not marking it as resolved, because obviously, that’s not a satisfactory resolution. I guess the obvious solution is for someone to do the Wikipedia edits necessary to allow us to link to good information in Spanish, but I am person…

The issue with doing edits at Wikipedia is you would have to change the names off all the different language pages to be the same thing, and I’m not sure it makes sense for example for a Spanish language page to be called Hamadryas(butterfly) EDIT - and it cant work at all for Wikipedia pages that …

[image] cmcheatle: I don’t know if there is any available fix other than allowing curators to set multiple links to the Wikipedia information that are language specific. Seems like a good feature request instead of a bug, since current functionality is behaving as expected. Should we convert…

Example of this work already done on Wikidata: [Screenshot_20190803-065306_Chrome] https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q841027

It does kind of cycle back to the same issue though, which is maintaining a link to the appropriate reference page, be it Wikipedia or Wikidata. String searches on Wikidata will have the same problem as string searches on Wikipedia, without the redirect benefit. That being said, I do agree though t…

The links on that page are from Wikidata to Wikipedia, and are what Wikipedia itself uses to generate those “read this article in other other language” links in the left sidebar of Wikipedia articles. Wikidata organizes taxa by scientific name (for the most part). [image]

Since it’s working as designed, I moved this from #bug-reports to #feature-requests .

[image] bouteloua: Wikidata organizes taxa by scientific name (for the most part). Unfortunately this is not something you can count on. There is no standard for naming, and in typical Wiki fashion agreement seems impossible. There is a current edit war going on between users setting the scie…

Right – “for the most part” as in the grand scheme of the number of taxa listed there.

Use Wikidata to link to appropriate Wikipedia articles in all languages

Feature Requests

bouteloua August 3, 2019, 11:54am 6

Example of this work already done on Wikidata:

https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q841027

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Use Wikidata to link to appropriate Wikipedia articles in all languages

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