Show wiki/db-pedia species abstract

[mdoering]

It would be nice to show the short wikipedia or db-pedia abstract for a species if existing.

People seem to link to wiki- or dbpedia by name and rank, e.g. BOLD:

Works fine for Ceratopogonidae: http://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=567 http://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/MAS_Ajax_WikiRetriever?name=Ceratopogonidae&rank=11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae

Doesn’t work for homonyms with wikipedia disambiguation pages: http://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=291858 http://v4.boldsystems.org/index.php/MAS_Ajax_WikiRetriever?name=Oenanthe&rank=14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenanthe Maybe we can improve that by at least following the disambiguation page for kingdoms, but it might get hard to impossible for homonyms within the same kingdom

Rods ispecies also just links to db-pedia, EOL etc by the canonical name, try his search: http://ispecies.org/

DbPedia provides a single sentance “rdfs:comment” for a species. And in addition a longer in abstract and vernacular names as the label (if its not the scientific name):. http://dbpedia.org/data/Abies_alba.json http://dbpedia.org/page/Abies_alba

You can download it as RDF which has the taxonomy nicely parsed out already. That might be a very good and simple to do replacement for the current wikipedia parsing which I do that still has issues. It would allow us to do the linking ourselves instead of relying on just some title/name based searches: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/dbpedia-dataset-version-2015-10

[MortenHofft]

I don't consider this a release blocker - but please raise it if you think so. It isn't obvious to me how to easily get something that isn't occasionaly showing wrong content

[MortenHofft]

A user that explicitly asks not to see wikipedia data http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/PF-1879?jql=project%20%3D%20PF%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open