Expand the Similar Species tab into an editable identification guide

[escol]

Also, please see a similar feature request!
I think this should be one base feature, it’s just that details are different.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-an-identification-center-with-guides-curated-subcategories-events-and-more/48007

Here are few important points of similar nature:

@phoekman

Feature request details:
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Identification guides: these are instrumental in teaching new identifiers how they can help ID species in their local region (be it in their city, country, local biome… whatever scale makes sense). The idea is to motivate all our experts to help draft very easy-to-understand documents in a standardized format to specifically explain how you can make positive IDs for the species in your area.

@phoekman

The main ‘needs’ that I have felt are the following:

1. Better access to identification knowledge

I have found it very hard to learn how to become a good identifier. To become an amateur identifier, I think someone needs access to locality-specific knowledge, as well as a certain level of confidence that their identification efforts are actually reliable enough for the website’s purposes. Being location-specific is instrumental: I don’t need to know how to identify all squirrels in the world; I just need to know how to differentiate between those that are very similar looking in my region, for instance. There is a wealth of knowledge already on iNat, and there are many people that generously share their knowledge through discussions in the comments, but this knowledge is very hard to find because it is so decentralized.

2. Motivating tools to encourage identification efforts

The current ‘center’ of identification efforts is found on the ‘Identify’ page. This page seems very useful for seasoned identifiers, but it is daunting and uninspiring to new users (at least, to me). It is very hard to understand how well we’re doing (say, as a local group, or even as iNat as a whole), even though identification is the one thing where you can easily track and show progress.

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Maybe also relevant:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-searching-research-repository/30278/2?u=escol