I’d love a way to view the observations I’ve annotated, preferably in the way that identifications are displayed on the profile pages:
I’ve been doing a lot of annotating recently, and there’s currently no way for me to see my progress other than the taxon pages of the taxa I’ve been working on (i.e. the “no annotation” graphs decreasing). I think being able to see one’s contributions would make more people motivated to annotate observations. I also think that being able to go back through your annotations and double check them would be very helpful.
This button wouldn’t necessarily need to lead to its own original page like the Identifications button. I think leading to the Explore page with some new “annotated by” URL filters would be perfect. Sort of like the URL searches for identifications, ident_user_id and without_ident_user_id. Something like annot_user_id and without_annot_user_id.
Dang, that would be awesome! That would definitely incentivize it! I’d only be afraid of them being annotated incorrectly by new users.
Question: is it the number of observations that you have annotated or the number of annotations total (multiple per observation).
Doing it only per observation would seem less likely to invite abuse (selecting all the options in the annotation list wouldn’t give you a bigger number). A new user might spam the annotations anyway but I’d assume they’d stop when they see the annotation number on their profile page and realize they’ve been doing 5 times as much work when they only need a single entry per observation. If you’re only going to do a single annotation per observation I’d expect one would do it right.
The Annotations number represents the number of observations to which the account has added an observation.
It does not include the account’s votes on any existing annotations, and if the account added two or more annotations for one observation (eg, Alive, Female), that would only count as one observation annotated.
