https://tools.wmflabs.org/tree-of-life/ is problematic at first looks. Bacteria, prokaryotes, monera and eukaryoates as sister groups on the same level? Prokaryotes contain as only subtaxon Archaea (but no bacteria)? Also, the mixed use of scientific and common names (variously as singular or plural) is rather confusing. sorry for the critique... gregor On 18 December 2014 at 17:35, Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: -- --------------------------------- Dr. G. Hagedorn +49 (0)30 2093 8576 (work) +49-(0)30-831 5785 (private) gregor.hagedorn(a)mfn-berlin.de http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorhagedorn This communication, together with any attachments, is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of my employer. It is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Redistributing or publishing it without permission may be a violation of copyright or privacy rights.

Thanks Lydia, agreed, the tool absolutely is useful and many thanks to you, Lucie and your team, for providing it!!!! However, it is difficult for me to say what needs to be resolved on the tools level and what on Wikidata content. What I observe looks to me (but I may be wrong) a mashup-error occurring when uncritically combining data from different sources, each source being internally consistent and correct. This may be something that needs to be addressed by the tool. The problem with different labels and singular/plural may or may not be a tool problem in choosing the correct label One problem I have when using the tool to try to understand what is going on: It should variously wikidata and wikipedia pages, making it somewhat difficult to follow what goes on. E.g. Biota is a wikidata page, bacteria is a wikipedia page... So again thanks for doing this great work! gregor On 18 December 2014 at 20:52, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: -- --------------------------- Dr. Gregor Hagedorn Head of Digital World and Information Science Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin +49 (0)30 2093 8576 (work) +49-(0)30-831 5785 (private) gregor.hagedorn(a)mfn-berlin.de http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de http://linkedin.com/in/gregorhagedorn This communication, together with any attachments, is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Redistributing or publishing it without permission may be a violation of copyright or privacy rights. Halloween = Christmas? 31 Oct = 25 Dec!

Perhaps just help understanding this better, by displaying the sources for the relations shown That seems helpful. One way would be to always show taxon name first, followed by the - at the moment perhaps inconsistent - language label in Parentheses perhaps iframe with the mobile-view as it is PLUS 2 normal (quick-) links below, allowing to open the normal-view pages to conveniently analyse/ read etc. ... not sure. Situation at the moment is that when I tried to understand the source of the mashup error, I could not do it with the information or links displays thanks again gregor

Little late to the party, but I feel I need to say: great work Lucie! On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: