NCBITaxonomyLookup

Setup

• Clone the repository into the /extensions folder
• Add wfLoadExtension('NCBITaxonomyLookup'); to the bottom of LocalSettings.php

Configuration

• $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupCacheTTL = 0 time to keep the cached values (in seconds)
• $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupApiURL the API url

Usage

The #taxonomy parser functions takes two arguments:

• the taxonomy ID
• the xpath of the XML element to print

Example:

{{#taxonomy:12345|Taxon/Rank}}
{{#taxonomy:12345|Taxon/ScientificName}}
{{#taxonomy:45678|Taxon/OtherNames/GenbankCommonName}}