I really like the idea of collecting especially useful ID information on taxon pages, mentioned in the post iNaturalist 2019 Team Retreat Follow-Up : Investigate ways to capture comments and ID remarks that are useful for making identifications and including them on the taxon page and in identifica…

One potential issue, at least in theory, is that keys or ID tips may only be relevant in certain parts of a taxon’s range. Just like guidebooks, a key to wildflowers or butterflies of New York State might differ in emphasis and structure from a key wildflowers or butterflies of Maine, even if many o…

Yes, that is a potential problem. My thinking is that initially there would be ad-hoc creation of region sub-sections within the article for a taxon. So in the same way that there are, say, bird field guides for eastern and western North America, the article for orb-weaving spiders might have a sect…

[image] JeremyHussell: What I want: the bare bones, first iteration prototype which would get me excited would just be an installation of MediaWiki or some other wiki software on an iNaturalist-controlled server (maybe at https://wiki.inaturalist.org/ ), plus displaying taxon articles in the wik…

Is this idea still active? While the all ideas about adding ID info are great, I would simply like a way to find my way back to interesting comment threads, i.e. “What was that cool thing bouteloua was saying about xxx a while back?”. You know, personal bookmarks like the Favorites. And maybe if en…

It’s possible we could come up with one or more taxon links (right side of the About tab on taxon pages) that could search iNat comments / posts for the taxon name. Might be kinda messy, though, and not guaranteed to find all (or only) useful information (if the taxon name was abbreviated in the po…

Back when I joined iNat, I started noticing lots of useful info getting buried in comments on observations, and especially because typically only a handful of people get to see them after they become RG (drop from the “needs ID” pool). A lot of it was simple tricks in using iNat, and so on. I starte…

[image] jdmore: It’s possible we could come up with one or more taxon links (right side of the About tab on taxon pages) that could search iNat comments I added a sample link called iNaturalist comments (search) to this taxon page to search for comments containing the taxon name. Look on the…

Hey all, Sorry, I somehow missed the responses to this thread a few weeks back. I like both ideas! The Project puts the onus on me to remember to add observations with good comment threads. But having an automatic Project for every taxon is an interesting idea. Is it possible? The button is nice,…

[image] faerthen: Or are you saying that because of the other iNat platforms, it’s a bad idea? Yeah, adding taxon links that only work if logged in through inaturalist.org , and not through any of the other national portals, would not be in keeping with international operability of the site. I…

Adding useful ID info to taxon pages

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zygy June 30, 2020, 10:14pm 27

I’ve created a related feature proposal that you can vote on: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/expand-the-similar-species-tab-into-an-editable-identification-guide/13890.

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Adding useful ID info to taxon pages

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