Scripts to generate batch edits of Wikidata for the following:
- Add missing descriptions for taxa in groups of interest
- Add missing descriptions for scholarly articles
- Add missing labels for taxa from corresponding Wikipedia articles in target language
- Add missing identifiers for taxa from IRMNG database, using higher taxonomy to skip homonyms
- Add missing identifiers for taxa from GBIF database, using higher taxonomy to skip homonyms
- Add missing identifiers for fungal taxa from Index Fungorum
- Add year of taxon publication for taxon names with reference where reference has role first valid description
- Link botanical authors as taxon author qualifiers by parsing taxon author citation strings
- Find items where some but not all authors in the taxon author citation are linked as taxon author qualifiers
IRMNG
- API documentation: https://www.irmng.org/rest/
GBIF
- API documentation: https://www.gbif.org/developer/species
- Species match does not restrict hits to the higher taxon supplied, even in 'strict' mode.
Index Fungorum
- API documentation: https://www.indexfungorum.org/ixfwebservice/fungus.asmx
- Doesn't return higher taxonomy, can't easily disambiguate homonyms