I came across a post by @conboy recently about Community Annotation Challenges . I had been wondering about something similar recently both for annotations and observation fields. Adding these would be good to increase the value of data on iNaturalist. There is a tutorial on Using Identify to Annotat…

Members with a trust level of 2 can make their post a wiki after they post it. Click on the elipsis icon (three dots), then click on the wrench icon and select “Make wiki”.

Awesome idea, thanks for the link back to that post too! I missed it first time around, and I learnt something new! I knew about the gland on the hind wing for males, but didn’t know about the thicker forewing veins on females…

Unless I am mistaken, can tags not only be added by the observer? So you may want to retitle this.

Nope, annotations can be added by anyone, if that’s what you mean by tags!

I’m pretty sure he meant tags, annotations are a different thing. For example, this observation has one tag (“Snoopy the Woodrat”) and also two annotations (juvenile and male).

I meant annotations and observation fields (rather than tags). Observation fields can be added by anyone (unless the observer has opted out) and cover things that annotations don’t cover. For instance there is a roadkill observation field which I’ve added to any UK roadkill observations I have come …

I’ve updated the original post so it’s hopefully a bit clearer now. I wrote it quickly…

Spent a couple of hours yesterday cleaning this bug family, added annotations for age plus fields (mostly dead/alive and mating, in copula) [browser] It helps a lot for checking RG observations, I checked Fieldfare page and just by 10 mins found 2 RG obs with different species of thrushes and mor…

I think I started creating a wiki of commonly used fields, though I can’t find it now. If i remembered wrong… maybe that would be a helpful project for someone else to do, that i can maybe help with

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zabdiel November 25, 2019, 10:12pm 13

There are now annotations for alive/dead:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627/135

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