Lately it seems like every day the large pile is getting a little smaller, by an amount that would take the help of multiple people per day. Thanks everyone! The large pile by my current reference: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&orde…

If I can sort of keep up with current obs, then it helps me recognise what I see on next week’s hike.

So I have noticed a significant uptick in the percent of my coarse IDs that get follow-up IDs over the last few days. A good number from people in this thread. I don’t want it to stop since it gives me hope my coarse IDs might lead to something one day, but so many I can’t even

Hispaniola is down to 16 unknowns now https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=136659&iconic_taxa=unknown

I’m doing my best to beaver my way through unconfirmed Canadian Nocuidae. There are 411 pages of unconfirmed observations. I have not even looked at unknowns. Some of these observations are two or three years old, and deserve to be confirmed or changed. It’s slow work (for me), especially with diffi…

[image] anthonywalton: Is that better than being ‘unknown’? Yes…but I’d still like to know what the species is at the end of the day - how many more years will I have to wait for this?? In addition to the problems @jnstuart mentioned, keep in mind that for many taxa it’s often difficult or im…

I’ve also been working on ‘unknowns’, mostly in the Oceania region. When I started paying attention to the numbers a few weeks ago, the number of ‘unknowns’ for the region was around 12,000, and now there are around 9,000. The number would keep going down even when I wasn’t online, so I knew at leas…

While I procrastinate uploading my Peru observations I’ve been addressing the Wisconsin unknowns, something I used to do fairly regularly. I know that I could clear the backlog in a day or two with concerted effort, but after a string of frustrating multi-species submissions or ones from someone who…

LOL I think we are all guilty of sometimes marking an annoying Observation as reviewed rather than dealing with it

This is my method with placeholders too, but if it’s a placeholder that looks like it should be a species name, I’ve recently started to do a little research to see if there’s a spelling error that prevented it from ending up in the database. I’ve only run into a couple of these recently, because I’…

Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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crellow December 15, 2019, 10:19pm 43

I’ve noticed that too. I and others have been working on the Australian unknowns the last few months, and we’re currently at about 2,400 compared to closer to 6,000 earlier this year.

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Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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