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NCBITaxonomyLookup Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Description	Pulls data from the NCBI taxonomy API into wiki pages
Author(s)	Vedmaka
Maintainer(s)	WikiTeq team
Latest version	1.1 (2023-05-12)
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.Category:Extensions with long-term support release branches compatibility policy
MediaWiki	1.35+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
Database changes	No
License	MIT License
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Parameters $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupApiURL $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupCacheTTL $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupCacheRandomizeTTL $wgNCBITaxonomyApiTimeoutFallbackToCache $wgNCBITaxonomyApiTimeout $wgNCBITaxonomyApiKey
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit Category:ParserFirstCallInit extensions
Quarterly downloads	0
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The NCBITaxonomyLookup extension allows querying the NCBI taxonomy database and pulling the information into wiki pages.

This extension was created for WikiWorks.

This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (grant 1U01CA230551).

Installation

• Download and move the extracted NCBITaxonomyLookup folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/NCBITaxonomyLookup
• Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See T173141 for potential complications.)Category:Extensions requiring Composer with git
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'NCBITaxonomyLookup' );
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

This extension has the following configuration parameters:

• $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupApiURL - NCBI API URL (defaults to https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi)
• $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupCacheTTL - Query cache TTL (default: 0)
• $wgNCBITaxonomyLookupCacheRandomizeTTL - Set to true to randomize the TTL for each cache entry to prevent server overload if all items expire simultaneously
• $wgNCBITaxonomyApiTimeoutFallbackToCache - Fallback to cached value if the remote is unavailable or failed to be fetched
• $wgNCBITaxonomyApiTimeout - Timeout for API queries (default: 60)
• $wgNCBITaxonomyApiKey - API key

Usage

Use the #taxonomy parser function to query specific taxonomy item fields:

• 1st parameter is the subject taxonomy ID
• 2nd parameter is the XML path to query against

{{#taxonomy:8371|Taxon/TaxId}} <!-- fetches the TaxId of the 8371 taxonomy item -->

Other examples:

{{#taxonomy:8371|Taxon/Lineage}}
{{#taxonomy:8371|Taxon/Rank}}
{{#taxonomy:8371|Taxon/ScientificName}}
{{#taxonomy:8371|Taxon/OtherNames/GenbankCommonName}}