Platform(s): website
Description of need:
New red lists come up every year from different geographic areas and contain many entries. As an example, I’m currently working on adding all the red lists for Switzerland. The red list of vascular plants contains 2916 entries and the red list of bees contains 631 entries.
Since early year 2024, bulk status update via spreadsheets have been removed. Since then, curators are required to add conservation statuses via the website interface. With these many entries to update, having an efficient process to add them is necessary. Currently, the only way to add a status is to go the taxon page, edit the taxon, open the “Add Conservation Status” link in another tab and add the status. Updating multiple statuses takes a long time and opens many unnecessary tabs, which is not ideal.
Feature request details:
It can be improved in a similar manner it has been done with the name additions. A button on “Status” tab of the taxon page only visible by curators could be added. That way, it would be much quicker for curators to add new statuses.
From my understanding, it would not be difficult to implement. The template for the “Add a Name” button could be reused and the link changed to the one for conservation statuses.
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