Many people voiced their opinions in favor of implementing a wiki (identification guides) integrated into iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions
Honestly, I would love to know if this is still considered. If it is, it would be also great if any update could be given on it’s priority - in case the staff are interested but simply are focused on other developments (e.g. new mobile app) which would be understandable.
Please see comments from the community for details on how they want it implemented. I’ll copy the response I left on blog post in here as well:
I support the idea of implementing a user-maintained wiki for having identification and other info easy to see to all people on the site, that perhaps could be tied to the taxon pages themselves.
There were already ‘Guides’ but the feature is no longer supported/being developed. It’s not well integrated or well visible on the site either which is a big issue.
https://www.inaturalist.org/guides
Wikipedia wouldn’t be great for this either, as it has a completely different purpose and writing style.
…the Guides are maintained by each person separately, and once again hard to notice, which doesn’t fit exactly with the purpose of a wiki.