Hi, There’s been a discussion among Indian users on data quality of observations from India. It was suggested to bring it up here so it can be addressed better by the iNat team. Many comments had come in. Indian users, please chip in your thoughts and comments. Summary: Primary issue: It seems th…

Not from India but Indonesia. We do have the same problem here, what i did was simply brute-forcing trough all the missidentified observations especially the obvious ones (american/european species). I looked at the species view from the country’s explore page and look for those american species a…

Only thing that can be done is reidentifying of all the mistakes. I believe when you change Id it will affect GBIF data when it will be exported next time.

[image] hopeland: What happens to misidentified observations when downgraded/reviewed from RG but have already been pushed to GBIF? Does GBIF get updated based on updated IDs This was previously covered on the forum, I will try and find the response and link to it, but a GBIF employee themsel…

[image] hopeland: It seems that this requires an intervention based on a well thought out process. In the absence of an India-specific “volunteer workgroup” to clean up the records, here’s a more general page where the more problematic taxa could be listed: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/co…

Primarily, the issue is probably only bigger w.r.t India because of the sheer number of users and the size of the country. Part of the solution would be getting rid of the ‘leaderboards’ for identifications. If there’s no fancy incentive for IDing, the users who make spurious IDs and mechanically a…

[image] po-po-pro: Part of the solution would be getting rid of the ‘leaderboards’ for identifications. If there’s no fancy incentive for IDing, the users who make spurious IDs and mechanically agree on IDs are bound to decrease. Leaderboards are handy for finding an expert in a taxon, though…

There’s a long thread about leaderboards, it’s mostly the human fault of doing things, if they want to be top they would want to be it even without a leaderboard (as you always can open the tab of identifiers).

Thank you for your comments. Yes. Species outside India marked in India is a frequent problem too.

Thanks for the comment, this helps!

Thank you for the comments. Normally Indian bioblitz tend to have organisers who end up curating the data. But I think the sheer number possibly overwhelms people attempting to curate… or such seems to be the experience.

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Leaderboards are handy for finding an expert in a taxon, though.

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