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 catalog 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: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 other sites.
• Below all navigation templates—except Authority control
• Above the Authority control template.
• Above the [[Category:]] 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

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

Taxon identifiers

For databases supported by Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy, see d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Taxonomy#Databases.

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

Parameter	Wikidata ID	Authority	Description
adw	P4024		identifier for a taxon in the Animal Diversity Web database
apdb	P2036		identifier for a plant taxon, in the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève's African Plant Database of scientific names
algaebase	P1348		URL for a taxon in AlgaeBase.org
araneae	P3594		identifier for a taxon in araneae.nmbe.ch
arkive	P2833		identifier for a taxon, in the ARKive database
avibase	P2026		identifier for a species, subspecies, or genus in the global bird database Avibase
bacdive	P2946		identifier for a microorganism, in the BacDive database
bamona	P3398		identifier for taxa in the "Butterflies and Moths of North America" database
biolib	P838		identifier for a taxon in the biological encyclopedia BioLib
bhl	P687	Biodiversity Heritage Library	identifier for a page in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
bugguide	P2464		identifier in BugGuide.net
butmoth	P3060		identifier for a butterfly or moth genus in the UK Natural History Museum's 'Butterflies and Moths of the World' database
conifers	P1940		identifier for a taxon in the conifers.org database
ebird	P3444		identifier for a species or subspecies, in the eBird database
eol	P830		eol.org item reference number
faunaeuropaea	P1895		identifier for a taxon in Fauna Europaea
fishbase	P938		identifier for a species in FishBase
florabase	P3101		identifier for a plant taxon, in the Government of Western Australia's FloraBase database
fna	P1727		identifier for a taxon in the Flora of North America database
foao	P3100		identifier for a plant taxon, in the Flora of Australia Online
foc	P1747		identifier for a taxon in Flora of China (English-language revision of Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae)
fossilworks	P842		identifier for an animal, plant, or microorganism in the Fossilworks database
gbif	P846		taxon identifier in GBIF
grassbase	P1832		identifier in GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
grin	P1421	GRIN Taxonomy for Plants	URL for a taxon in the GRIN website
ibc	P3099		identifier for a species of bird, in the Internet Bird Collection database
ictv	P1076
inaturalist	P3151		identifier in iNaturalist
indexfungorum	P1391	Index Fungorum	identifier for a fungus taxon in Index Fungorum
ipni	P961		numerical identifier for a plant name in the International Plant Names Index
ipni	P586		numerical identifier for a person in the International Plant Names Index
itis	P815		identifier for a taxon in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
iucn	P627		identifier for a taxon in the International Union for Conservation of Nature database; source for conservation status (P141)
lepindex	P3064	The Global Lepidoptera Names Index	identifier for a Lepidoptera taxon, in the UK Natural History Museum's 'Global Lepidoptera Names Index'
lpsn	P1991	LPSN	URL for the website List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)
msw	P959		identifier from Mammal Species of the World database
mycobank	P962		identifier per MycoBank - a database that provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of fungi
ncbi	P685		identifier for a taxon in the Taxonomy Database by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
paldat	P4122		identifier for a plant species in the Palynological Database (PalDat) for pollen of the University of Vienna
panartic	P2434		identifier for a taxon in the Panarctic Flora
plantarium	P3102		identifier for a plant taxon, in the Plantarium database
plantlist	P1070		identifier in The Plant List database from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
plants	P1772		identifier in the United States Department of Agriculture PLANTS Database
plazi	P1992		identifier for a taxon treatment at Plazi.org
species	P2040		identifier for a taxon in the Species+ database (CITES)
sprat	P2455		identifier from Species Profile and Threats Database managed by Australian Government Department of the Environment
tropicos	P960		identifier for a taxon name in the Tropicos database
vascan	P1745		identifier for a taxon in the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada
watson	P1761		familyID in Watson & Dallwitz: The families of flowering plants
wcsp	P3591		identifier of a plant taxon, in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
worms	P850		identifier in the World Register of Marine Species
wsc	P3288		identifier of a taxon in the World Spider Catalog
xeno-canto	P2426		identifier of a bird species in the Xeno-canto database
zoobank	P1746		identifier for a name or nomenclatural act at ZooBank

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 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 if the goal is to keep the bar on one line.

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:

Taxon identifiers not in Wikidata

Some taxon identifiers not at present in Wikidata can be added via extra parameters, however adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

Example:

{{taxonbar | emonocot = 280381}}

On Lilium, the result is:

where the taxon identifier in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 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
uBio	uBio	http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=$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 taxons will exist under multiple names on Wikidata. To add these additional names, you can use the |from2=, |from3=, etc. parameters to add their Wikidata IDs (|from=/|from1= will be automatically determined by the article title should normally be omitted, but can be specified manually if needed).

If there is more that one row, the taxon name from Wikidata will be shown in the leftmost column — to overwrite this, use the |for=/|for1=, |for2=, |for3=, 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|from2=Q138193}}, when placed on the page Aloiampelos ciliaris produces:

More taxon examples

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

Further reading

• Help:Taxon identifiers
• Module:Taxonbar - the backend of this template.

Other Links

• {{ThePlantList}}
• {{Authority control}}
• {{Taxobox}}
• Wikipedia:Automated_taxobox_system/intro

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