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 …

Hi jonathan142 , are those misidentified images still present on WikiMedia Commons ? There are three larval images that I see, but they appear to be correctly labeled.

Should anyone have questions about Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons etc) that don’t belong in this thread or you don’t feel comfortable posting here, I am sure all of the following (myself included) would be happy to help if you DM us: @siobhanleachman @adzebill @andrawaag @radrat …

On Wikidata is the a preferred or proper way on a taxa page to indicate the article in which a species is described? On the page for the article itself, I assume the has subject qualifier could be used, but how about for the reverse?

The work where a taxon was described can be entered as its own Wikidata item and then any relevant statements in the Wikidata record for the taxon can be ascribed to that as a source. It looks like Property P5326 (publication in which this taxon name was established) gives you a specific way to mak…

Hi Jonathan, thanks for sending me the link of the two files in question with incorrect/mis-identified names. I resubmitted the request template and they have both been renamed now based on the information that you provided on the talk page. 'Cheers

I wish we can consistently link back to iNat from wikipedia. I know the “Taxon identifiers” (taxonbar) has an automated link to the iNat taxon ID, e.g. 4631 for Magnificent_frigatebird. But few readers can find that easily. So I have been adding iNat to the “External links”, where there are often (b…

Hmm, most editors will delete those since it’s already in the taxonbar (that’s what the taxonbar is for, to make a bunch of external links to helpful websites more compact).

Doesn’t the taxonbar read dynamically from Wikidata ? I’m not sure if you can manually update the contents (to be clear not meant to say you cant, saying I don’t know), but if you add the identifier iNaturalist taxon ID, which is P3151 then the taxonbar will automatically pick that up, as I just tes…

[image] cmcheatle: Doesn’t the taxonbar read dynamically from Wikidata ? I’m not sure if you can manually update the contents The links in the taxonbar do come automatically from Wikidata, but you can also manually edit the taxonbar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxonbar#Additional_…

Please read the conversation on the closed flag https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/504670 as background and advise as to what my process should be. A brief summary: I spot a problem with an About page and flag the taxon to try to make it visible because I don’t have time to do a Wikipedia edit that…

Ways to help improve iNaturalist taxon pages through Wikipedia

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