I’ve been contacting many iNat users asking them if they’d consider changing a license on an individual observation so as to enable reusing its photos on Wikipedia. So far, a few people responded positively, asking me how to do it, and I pointed them to the Edit License menu on the top right of the …

I think this is a confusion of the observation license and photo license. The Edit license button at the top right of the observation detail page is for the observation license (i.e. the observation itself and presumably in reference to text included in the description). (It’s often helpful if you c…

If you already making the effort of asking them, would it not be better to try to convince them to change the license of all their data (images and observations)? via the “account setting” this might benefit the community more than just change it for single observations. If they are not into it you…

I like the small ask, but feel free to adjust your personal approach as you like.

@bouteloua thanks for your quick reply. I am aware of the distinction from the account settings, but assumed the Edit license button would update the license of the observation and the associated photos (I’ve never used it before, whence my confusion). In fact, there’s no language in that screen tha…

I’ve been doing this for a while and realized that in some cases a global license change is a big scary step for people to take until they see the value. I typically start with one request and if it’s successful and I find a second photo that would be useful on Wikipedia I ask at that point if they’…

I already have a request open here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/improve-viewing-editing-copyright-information-on-observations/308 the latest thoughts from the staff were: [image] Improve viewing & editing copyright information on observations Agreed, which is why @bouteloua made this featur…

Noted and followed, what is “CNC”?

the City Nature Challenge, which requires some staff attention to make sure the site can handle the massive number of observations and questions coming in at that time. citynaturechallenge.org

Edit license screen doesn't work

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Edit License on Observation seems to be non-working Bug Reports	4	641	January 28, 2020
Improve viewing & editing copyright information on observations Feature Requests web	34	3445	June 4, 2025
Wrong License Applied to My Existing Observations Bug Reports	9	471	March 27, 2021
Change photo and observation license(s) in the apps Feature Requests android-app , mobile-app	6	894	August 14, 2025
Change of license for a single photo General	7	1014	October 15, 2021

Edit license screen doesn't work

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