Every taxon page on iNaturalist—pages about species, genera, families, etc—has an “About” tab that automatically pulls content from Wikipedia, if there is a page for that taxon. iNaturalist About tab for Hypericum kalmianum: [image] Ways to help improve iNaturalist taxon pages through Wikipedia …

[image] bouteloua: No, the taxoboxes on the English Wikipedia aren’t connected to Wikidata, they’re manually edited and maintained internally. No, there is clearly some kind of integration between the 2. I just created this species on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/894995-Blepharis-e…

If you want to try yourself here is a valid species not in iNat, accepted at POWO: POWO page Wikipedia page Wikidata page

Are you referring to the taxonbar? The taxobox is the taxonomy hierarchy that appears at the top right, while the taxonbar shows the links to other sites.

For linking up iNat and Wikidata taxa, there’s also this tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/random/238

@andrawaag - do you know if there is a property in Wikidata used to express the fact that a taxon name is a junior synonym of another taxon ? For example this is now considered a junior synonym of this . I know there is P1420 (taxon synonym), but the way I read that text is I would apply that one t…

I’d like to propose a wiki for users to link to Wikipedia taxon pages with errors. Forum members who also edit Wikipedia articles would get a list you could work from (at your leisure, of course!), and those who aren’t tech-savvy, or don’t wish to learn the editing process for just one or two artic…

By “wiki”, you mean on the message board here, right? I don’t see a problem with that; it might be helpful to tip off some of the relevant WikiProjects on en.wikipedia to encourage editors there to check it regularly.

The idea seems interesting enough. Does iNat use other languages’ Wikipedia entries if the site used with a translation? If so, then maybe the post should not be English-only, as well :) (some stuff is very well described in English but maybe not in Spanish or Russian or whatnot).

Personally I’d rather see that effort based on Wikipedia under their projects system. iNat does link to Wikipedia pages taxon pages in other languages but it’s not perfect: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-wikidata-to-link-to-appropriate-wikipedia-articles-in-all-languages/5538

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andrawaag July 14, 2019, 5:36pm 35

@cmcheatle Sorry for the late answer. I am not aware of a designated property for junior synonym. But why not use a qualifier, as I have done in this example

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