Support common names for other languages

[Optilete]

https://taxonia.app/test?questionCount=15&taxon=311249&place=7506

To support the Dutch bryofyten course https://www.blwg.nl/mossencursus/
it would be nice if the answers could be given in Dutch common names for mosses.

[benhall-7]

If there's a way to set this in the iNaturalist API itself, then it should be simple to get the user locale from the browser. Otherwise, it may be harder. Does iNaturalist have this feature in the website already? My primary language is English so I haven't checked it before

[benhall-7]

Actually, no need to answer, there is the ability to set locale in the API. It seems that there's probably a valid list of locales somewhere, or it's hardcoded. In either case, it will be reasonable to support!

[Optilete]

You should look voor Lexicon's I think, not for locales. And the most common ones are here
'The state of common names 2023' :
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/the-state-of-common-names/39118

or in a download: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip ?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/inaturalist-dwca-with-taxa.zip.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/include-lexicon-in-api-taxa-all-names-search/17061
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-sql-to-query-inats-dwca-taxonomy-export/29377

[Optilete]

https://www.inaturalist.org/terminology#lexicon , found no locale....
( strange, some are english, some have a description in my locale.language)

[benhall-7]

It looks like iNaturalist is a little inconsistent about the terminology they use. The API itself refers to it as locale, and I also see locale in my iNat account settings, but this might also be dependent on language:

Regardless, it makes little difference what we call it here, the end result should work as long as I can get the list of possible languages (e.g. en, nl, ...). I'm looking but haven't found it yet

[Optilete]

There is a difference between lexicon and locale . Notice Taxon name is not mentioned in your screenshot!
''Name of a collection of words or terms containing a taxon name, e.g. the name of a language or a set of abbreviations''

Lexicons are always the same and are in English.

There might be e.g. 30 locales en 70 lexicons in iNaturalist.

[Optilete]

If I take an example, eg. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265189277.json

"default_name": {

  "id": 3359804,
  "name": "Blauwbladig rood guichelheil",
  "is_valid": true,
  "lexicon": "Dutch"
},

"common_name": {

  "id": 3359804,
  "name": "Blauwbladig rood guichelheil",
  "is_valid": true,
  "lexicon": "Dutch"
},