Here’s some fun annotation math to put things in perspective. Right now I’m tackling life stage and evidence of presence on all Research Grade genus Vanessa observations.
On iNaturalist there are currently 5,147 pages missing life stage on the Research Grade observations for the genus Vanessa. Each page shows 30 observations, which means there are:
5,147 × 30 = 154,410 observations
When I’m in a good rhythm I can annotate about 20 observations per minute
At that rate:
154,410 ÷ 20 = 7,720.5 minutes
Which comes out to:
128.7 hours or 5 days, 8 hours, 41 minutes if I annotated nonstop
More realistically if I worked on it for 2 hours per day, that would be:
128.7 hours ÷ 2 hours/day = about 64 days to finish annotating this genus