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Introduction
This site provides a mapping between the NCBI taxonomy and Wikipedia. It is a work in progress. See data dumps for a description of how data is extracted from the underlying wiki.
Publication
A paper describing this project has been published in PLoS Currents: Tree of Life as Linking NCBI to Wikipedia: a wiki-based approach http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.RRN1228 PMC3080707.
Progress
Linkout
2010-06-12
Trial of five Linkouts went live:
Wikipedia links work, iPhylo links don't. File was processed 2010-06-11 07:09:21 BST
iPhylo links now work Rdmpage 11:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
2010-06-17
We received your LinkOut Simple Text (FT) file "wikipedia.ft", date "2010-06-14,12:01:56. It will be processed and the links will be available to users in 48 hours.
First major release of 52,956 links are now live. Rdmpage 15:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Stats
Number of times a visitor to the NCBI taxonomy database clicked on link from that page to Wikipedia (data provided by NCBI LInkout)
| Year | Month | Number of Hits |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | March | 757 |
| 2012 | February | 1037 |
| 2012 | January | 664 |
| 2011 | December | 651 |
| 2011 | November | 1272 |
| 2011 | October | 1064 |
| 2011 | September | 1006 |
| 2011 | August | 722 |
| 2011 | July | 2217 |
| 2011 | June | 1262 |
| 2011 | May | 1389 |
| 2011 | April | 1493 |
| 2011 | March | 1015 |
| 2011 | February | 863 |
| 2011 | January | 810 |
| 2010 | December | 786 |
| 2010 | November | 1315 |
| 2010 | October | 2468 |
| 2010 | September | 864 |
| 2010 | August | 723 |
| 2010 | July | 660 |
| 2010 | June | 558 |
Dumps
Dumps of the mapping on various dates. For instructions on how to make these dumps see Dump.
2010-06-14
- Tab-delimited text (NCBI taxonomy id, Wikipedia page, Wikipedia page id)
- NCBI Linkout format
2010-08-31
2010-12-03
2010-12-06
2011-03-02
2011-09-13
Examples
- Sphaerius A beetle with a complicated nomenclatural history
- Crocodylus mindorensis A crocodile with original description in BioStor
Galleries
Examples of sets of taxa that have images in Wikipedia (click on an image to go to the page mapping the NCBI taxon to Wikipedia).
Literature
Taxon pages with links to descriptions
N
- Ncbi:1041013 (Dinochelus)
- Ncbi:1041014 (Dinochelus ausubeli)
- Ncbi:108523 (Deinacrida)
- Ncbi:111132 (Phyllobates terribilis)
- Ncbi:153295 (Rhogeessa alleni)
- Ncbi:164545 (Pareledone turqueti)
- Ncbi:174920 (Sphaerius)
- Ncbi:184236 (Crocodylus mindorensis)
- Ncbi:184242 (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
- Ncbi:202358 (Grylloblatta campodeiformis)
- Ncbi:240530 (Ocoidae)
- Ncbi:244939 (Grylloblattidae)
- Ncbi:253125 (Sclerophasma)
N cont.
- Ncbi:288655 (Biffarius)
- Ncbi:299776 (Laurasiarana)
- Ncbi:305629 (Dasyatis dipterura)
- Ncbi:311578 (Ingerana baluensis)
- Ncbi:338554 (Rieppeleon)
- Ncbi:369090 (Aneuretus simoni)
- Ncbi:389779 (Stanwellia)
- Ncbi:389859 (Stanwellia hoggi)
- Ncbi:428840 (Pareledone felix)
- Ncbi:437647 (Varanus boehmei)
- Ncbi:44041 (Anaprionus)
- Ncbi:444932 (Amantis biroi)
- Ncbi:44537 (Pyretophorus)
N cont.
- Ncbi:495889 (Trygonoptera sp. B PRL-1994)
- Ncbi:52104 (Desmognathus ochrophaeus)
- Ncbi:563833 (Rhinolophus xinanzhongguoensis)
- Ncbi:58612 (Grylloblatta)
- Ncbi:61716 (Hapalochlaena maculosa)
- Ncbi:72040 (Cephalocarida)
- Ncbi:72160 (Dirachma socotrana)
- Ncbi:745173 (Hirtodrosophila duncani)
- Ncbi:86379 (Himantura schmardae)
- Ncbi:87132 (Himantura signifer)
- Ncbi:89892 (Triops australiensis)
- Ncbi:91561 (Cetartiodactyla)
- Ncbi:94020 (RTA clade)
Taxa subject to decisions by ICZN
Errors
Some pages are flagged as having errors, which might be in the mapping, in NCBI, or in Wikipedia. Some of these "errors" may be internal inconsistencies. For example, the NCBI page for Daphniidae states that NCBI includes the family Moinidae in the family Daphniidae following [1], yet Moinidae have their own entry.
References
- ↑
Fryer, Geoffrey
(1995) Phylogeny and adaptive radiation within the Anomopoda: a preliminary exploration Hydrobiologia 307 doi:10.1007/BF00031997
