Commons:iNaturalist
As noted at iNaturalist:
iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. iNaturalist may be accessed via its website or from its mobile app. iNaturalist includes an automated species identification tool, and users further assist each other in identifying organisms from photographs. As of June 2023, iNaturalist users had contributed approximately 161,278,660 observations of plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms worldwide, and around 350,000 users were active in the previous 30 days.
iNaturalist provides valuable open data to researches, conservationists and the public, and many of its users' images are available under Commons-compatible open licences.
Commons
[edit]Tools
[edit]iNaturalist2Commons
[edit]iNaturalist2Commons is a user script that lets you import free-license images from iNaturalist to Commons. Note that you need the upload_by_url user right to import the images.
Wiki loves iNaturalist!
[edit]Wiki loves iNaturalist! helps you find articles of species on Wikipedia and Wikidata that lack images and find appropriately licensed images in iNaturalist to use in Wikipedia articles. Note that you need the upload_by_url user right to import the images directly to Commons.
iNat2Wiki
[edit]iNat2Wiki is a Flask app on toolforge that enables navigation by iNaturalist user, enabling identification and upload of openly licensed photos to Commons.
There is also an iNat2Wiki add-on for Chrome that helps connecting pics to Commons while browsing the iNaturalist interface.
Usage stats
[edit]Files that are in Category:Media from iNaturalist are used thousands of times across Wikimedia projects, as detailed here.
Sister projects
[edit]- d:Wikidata:WikiProject Biodiversity (aka WikiProject iNaturalist)