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Contents 1 Progress 1.1 Linkout 1.1.1 2010-06-12 1.1.2 2010-06-17 1.2 Dumps 1.2.1 2010-06-14 1.2.2 2010-08-31 2 Examples 2.1 Galleries 2.2 Literature 2.2.1 Taxon pages with links to descriptions 2.3 N 2.4 N cont. 2.5 N cont. 2.5.1 Taxa subject to decisions by ICZN 2.6 N 2.7 N cont. 2.8 N cont. 2.9 Errors 2.10 References

Linkout - A NCBI taxonomy to Wikipedia mapping.

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.

Progress

Linkout

2010-06-12

Trial of five Linkouts went live:

• 153295
• 31380
• 39142
• 7806
• 13398

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)

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

• NCBI Linkout format

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).

Banksia

… further results

Trochilidae

… further results

Eciton

Volvocaceae

… further results

Literature

Taxon pages with links to descriptions

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

1. ↑ Fryer, Geoffrey (1995) Phylogeny and adaptive radiation within the Anomopoda: a preliminary exploration Hydrobiologia 307 doi:10.1007/BF00031997
   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00031997