Package: wikitaxa 0.5.0

Zachary Foster

wikitaxa: Taxonomic Information from 'Wikipedia'

'Taxonomic' information from 'Wikipedia', 'Wikicommons', 'Wikispecies', and 'Wikidata'. Functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.

Authors:Scott Chamberlain [aut], Ethan Welty [aut], Grzegorz Sapijaszko [aut], Zachary Foster [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'wikitaxa' in R:

install.packages('wikitaxa', repos = c('https://ropensci.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/wikitaxa/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://docs.ropensci.org

Datasets:

wikipedias - List of Wikipedias

On CRAN:

taxonomy species api web-services wikipedia vernacular wikispecies wikicommons taxize wikipedia-api

8.23 score 22 stars 11 packages 12 scripts 6.4k downloads 15 exports 26 dependencies

Last updated from:9e183847ac (on master). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	130
pkgdown docs	OK	150
source / vignettes	OK	157
linux-release-x86_64	OK	123
macos-release-arm64	OK	88
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	118
windows-devel	OK	95
windows-release	OK	69
windows-oldrel	OK	71
wasm-release	OK	101

Exports:wt_data wt_data_id wt_wiki_page wt_wiki_page_parse wt_wiki_url_build wt_wiki_url_parse wt_wikicommons wt_wikicommons_parse wt_wikicommons_search wt_wikipedia wt_wikipedia_parse wt_wikipedia_search wt_wikispecies wt_wikispecies_parse wt_wikispecies_search

Dependencies:askpass cli crul curl data.table glue httpcode httr jsonlite lifecycle magrittr mime openssl pillar pkgconfig R6 Rcpp rlang sys tibble triebeard urltools utf8 vctrs WikipediR xml2

Introduction to the wikitaxa package

Scott Chamberlain

Rendered fromwikitaxa.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 13 2026.

Last update: 2020-06-28
Started: 2020-06-28

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
wikitaxa	wikitaxa-package wikitaxa
List of Wikipedias	wikipedias
Wikidata taxonomy data	wt_data wt_data_id
Get MediaWiki Page from API	wt_wiki_page
Parse MediaWiki Page	wt_wiki_page_parse
Build MediaWiki Page URL	wt_wiki_url_build
Parse MediaWiki Page URL	wt_wiki_url_parse
WikiCommons	wt_wikicommons wt_wikicommons_parse wt_wikicommons_search
Wikipedia	wt_wikipedia wt_wikipedia_parse wt_wikipedia_search
WikiSpecies	wt_wikispecies wt_wikispecies_parse wt_wikispecies_search