ID-a-thon Impact

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I want to know if more annotations àre happening. I know my annotation rate has gone up especially if I find out a detail that allows me to sex a species or add a life stage. Definitely annotating more plants.

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Yes, it is more about the proportional change than comparing percent changes between years, I thought that was implied in my comment. You could also normalize percent change by accounting for overall identifier growth over the years… Many such ways but I still don’t completely believe the numbers given

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Bottom line. More people are aware iNat needs YOU to ID.

Some will discover they enjoy IDing.

Ultimately some will join a small group working thru ‘their taxon of choice’

The tide has turned ?

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I’m wondering if there could be a forum thread dedicated to announcements of ID-a-thon efforts, even if those efforts aren’t coordinated by iNat staff. Moderators, would this be OK? Full disclosure: I organize one such ID-a-thon that is coming up.

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I don’t think this would fit with the forum’s current guidelines which note (in the General Category):

We generally unlist and close threads that mainly focus on promoting iNat projects or initiatives or other threads that don’t really focus on starting a conversation (like announcements, requests for surveys, a single link to a webpage without context, etc.). That said I know that there are threads that discuss some more organic identifying initiatives (IdentiFriday, etc.). You could make a post asking about whether there might be a way to do this in Forum Feedback (since this thread is really focus on iNat’s first official ID-a-thon)?

You could also use other routes to promote a user-organized ID-a-thon like projects, journal posts, iNat Discord, etc.

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Thanks! That’s what I thought, but I also thought it was worth checking.

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The way I understand it, you can only advertise an IDathon if it is worldwide and open to all participants.

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Thanks, Amy. I’ll try to stop thinking about running a global ID-a-thon that focuses just on observations identified as Plantae. Or Dicots, for that matter. There’s certainly enough to do elsewhere!

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