Template:Taxonbar

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Further information: Help:Taxon identifiers

Description

This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various biological and taxonomic databases. Taxonbar displays these links as short strings, indicating the unique identifier each database has assigned the taxon for catalogue purposes.

Taxonomic identifiers of each taxon are stored and retrieved from each taxon's corresponding Wikidata entry, but can be overridden in individual articles with locally entered data. Adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

This project is based on the work of {{Authority Control}} and Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy. If you are a template editor or Wikipedia administrator, you may contribute at Module:Taxonbar. Please discuss ideas/thoughts for improvement or use on Template:Taxonbar/talk.

Taxonbar is placed below all navigation templates, except Authority control (not shown here).

Position

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout

Please place Taxonbar correctly. As a metadata template, Taxonbar should be placed:

• Below all references, footnotes, and external links.
• Below all navigation templates—except Authority control
• Above the Authority control template.
• Above all [[Category:]] and stub template codes in the editor.

Usage

Add Taxonbar to an article:

1. In Source editing mode, insert {{Taxonbar|from=}} below all other navigation templates except Authority control — it is preferable to add the from = QID parameter even if just a single Wikidata item points to the article.
2. Click "Show preview" to check placement, and to see which taxon identifiers are automatically pulled from Wikidata.
3. If you have more identifiers to add, consider adding them to the article's Wikidata item, so that all versions of Wikipedia automatically benefit. Be careful not to edit the structure or names of Wikidata taxa until you have become familiar with Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy and Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy/Tutorial.

Basic code:

{{Taxonbar|from=}}

Taxon example

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

{{Taxonbar | from=Q243761}} when placed in the Scarlet macaw article:

Basic use samples

See also: Module:Taxonbar/sandbox and Template:Taxonbar/testcases

• Blue jay
• European robin
• Agaricus bisporus
• American chestnut
• Nelumbo lutea
• Escherichia coli
• Plasmodium falciparum
• Bombus terrestris
• Canis
• Monarch butterfly

Taxon identifiers

Template:For2 The template can automatically get its information from the following properties on Wikidata. This is configured in Module:Taxonbar/conf.

Hide specific identifier (optional)

Individual identifiers listed in the table above can be removed/hidden from the bar by setting the corresponding parameter to no. This is useful when trying to reduce the number of unhelpful links within Taxonbar. Spaces are optional. There is no sense in removing too many identifiers, for example: removing plant or fungi identifiers from an animal taxon would have no effect, as these parameters will not show up on an animal taxon in the first place. It is best to preview {{Taxonbar}} on the page and decide what entries provide little relevant data. Plant species will have the most entries and are most likely in need of hiding some entries.

Example: To remove FOC, IPNI, and AFPD, the code would look like:

{{Taxonbar | foc = no | ipni = no| apdb = no }}

On Coffea arabica, the result is:

Excluded databases

These databases are available at Wikidata, but are excluded by default here (en.wiki) for being non-English.

Wikidata property name	ID	Authority	Description	Language
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Taiwanese
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Spanish
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Czech
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Swedish
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Catalan
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	German
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Dutch
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Russian
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	French
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Dutch
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Dutch
Template:Taxonbar/ExcludedProperty	Portuguese

Additional parameters

Some taxon identifiers not currently in Wikidata can be added via additional parameters; however, adding the data to Wikidata is preferable, so that all versions of Wikipedia automatically benefit.

Example:

{{Taxonbar | emonocot = 280381 }}

On Lilium, the result is:

where the taxon identifier in the eMonocot has been added to those picked up from Wikidata.

Parameter	Database	Property URL/Interwiki link
eMonocot	eMonocot	http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:$1
emonocotfamily	eMonocot	http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:family:$1
wsc-species	World Spider Catalog	http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/search?sFamily=&fMt=begin&sGenus=&gMt=begin&sSpecies=&sMt=begin&mMt=exact&multiPurpose=slsid&sMulti=$1
wsc-genus	World Spider Catalog	http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/search?sFamily=&fMt=begin&sGenus=&gMt=begin&sSpecies=&sMt=begin&mMt=exact&multiPurpose=glsid&sMulti=$1
wsc-family	World Spider Catalog	http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/search?sFamily=&fMt=begin&sGenus=&gMt=begin&sSpecies=&sMt=begin&mMt=exact&multiPurpose=flsid&sMulti=$1
Wikispecies	Wikispecies	Wikispecies:$1

Multiple Wikidata entries

Some taxa will exist under multiple names (synonyms) on Wikidata. To add these synonyms, use the |from2=, |from3=, etc., parameters to specify their Wikidata IDs. The parameter |from= / |from1= will be implicitly determined by the Wikidata item linked to the article. While not required, it is preferable to explicitly store the linked Wikidata item in the |from= / |from1= parameter, for maintenance purposes. Parameters |from2=, |from3=, etc., can also be added, for example, if the linked Wikidata item differs from the taxon name of the en:Wikipedia article.

If there is more than one row, the taxon name from Wikidata will be shown in the leftmost column — to overwrite this, use the |title= / |title1=, |title2=, |title3=, etc. parameters. You can add taxon identifiers not present in Wikidata by appending the appropriate number to the end of the parameter name — for example, to add emonocot to the second row, use |emonocot2=.

For example, {{Taxonbar|from=Q26972265|from2=Q20717272}}, when placed on the page Dog produces:

The same approach can be used when monotypic taxa have a single article, but there are multiple entries in Wikidata. For example, at Haptanthus, which covers the genus and its sole species, {{Taxonbar|from1=Q15715555|from2=Q133951}} produces:

Basionyms

Basionyms available on Wikidata (via (P566)) are automatically appended. You may also manually specify the basionym via |from#= to customize its location.

For example, both

{{Taxonbar|from1=Q43372357|from2=Q164254}} and

{{Taxonbar|from1=Q43372357|from2=Q164254|from3=Q21977691}}

would produce identical taxonbars for Ponerorchis cucullata:

or {{Taxonbar|from1=Q43372357|from2=Q21977691|from3=Q164254}} for a customized location:

More taxon examples

See also: Module:Taxonbar/sandbox and Template:Taxonbar/testcases

Arabica coffee, Coffea arabica Common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus Jaguar, Panthera onca Eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis Firefly, Lampyridae Fly agaric, Amanita muscaria Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lactobacillus acidophilus Plasmodium falciparum

Module editing — to-do list

• Continue to add support for new, useful parameters (search)

Module editing — to-don't list

• Import synonym QIDs via (P1420) from Wikidata (talk)

See also

• Help:Taxon identifiers
• Module:Taxonbar/candidate
• Module:Taxonbar/exists

Other links

• {{ThePlantList}}
• {{Authority control}}
• {{Taxobox}}
• Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system/intro
• Other templates in Category:Biology external link templates
• Other templates in Category:Botany external link templates

Tracking categories

Maintenance required

• Category:Taxonbar pages requiring a Wikidata item‎ (0)
• Category:Taxonbars desynced from Wikidata (0)
• Category:Taxonbars on possible non-taxon pages (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with duplicate from parameters (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with invalid from parameters (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with manual taxon IDs differing from Wikidata (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with unnamed parameters (0)

Maintenance desired

• Category:Taxonbars without primary Wikidata taxon IDs (0) — find/add taxon IDs to the primary Wikidata item
• Category:Taxonbars without secondary Wikidata taxon IDs (0) — find/add taxon IDs to secondary Wikidata item(s)
• Category:Taxonbars using manual taxon IDs (0) — migrate IDs to Wikidata, if possible
• Category:Taxonbars with manual taxon IDs identical to Wikidata (0) — remove duplicate(s) on Wikipedia
• Category:Taxonbars with from2 matching article title‎ (0) — swap |from1=/|from2= parameter values (maybe)
• Category:Taxonbars with from2 matching article title‎ & QID (0) — swap |from1=/|from2= parameter values (probably)
• Category:Taxonbars without from parameter (0) — add |from= parameter
• Category:Taxobox articles missing a taxonbar (0) — add {{Taxonbar}}, if appropriate

Tracking only (no error)

• Category:Taxobox articles possibly missing a taxonbar (0)
• Category:Taxonbars using multiple manual Wikidata items (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with 20–24 taxon IDs (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with 25–29 taxon IDs (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with 30–34 taxon IDs (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with 35–39 taxon IDs (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with 40+ taxon IDs (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with automatically added basionyms‎ (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with automatically added original combinations (0)
• Category:Taxonbars with automatically added monotypic genera (0)

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Taxonbar

Links to taxonomic databases via Wikidata

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Wikidata item	from	no description Example Q1	Unknown	suggested

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Taxonbar/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.