Observers provide data to iNat. Identifiers provide both metadata and peer review for the data. We identifiers are “volunteer curators” at iNat. Shall we develop consensus best practices for handling certain types of data that we curate? I invite discussion here. @tiwane perhaps you could move a few…

On an overall level, I think that researchers using this data should put a higher priority on having consistent names across the dataset they are hoping to use. Instead of just thanking a few people at the end, what if papers started saying things like: “all observations were reviewed by at least o…

Can you give some examples of what types of things you are thinking of? I’m not clear on what the topic is supposed to be. I also don’t know what a Mission post is as well - something to do with the Missions feature on the Android app?

When “Mission” is used in this context, I think lotteryd is talking about the Mission Impossible: identifying plants in Africa project that concludes today.

I thoroughly agree with this. Citizen science platforms like iNat are often seen as inferior by some researchers because they have so many errors and misidentifications, which I think is very unjustified. It’s true that we do have a great many misidentifications, but so do virtually all other data…

[image] cthawley: I also don’t know what a Mission post is see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mission-impossible-identify-plantae-in-africa/43528/290

Ok, got it, though I think anyone can link those thread in the post?

i think the request was to move the side conversation starting around the post i noted above to this thread.

I find this title confusing as “curator” means a specific role on iNaturalist and those curators are of course also volunteers.

It’s true that there are other (cough) “real” volunteer curators that are literally labeled as Curators at this site. These folks also curate metadata for observations (and are often identifiers themselves), but they just have a few more higher-level buttons available for them to press. Identifier-l…

I am the person who recently deleted my account. I am as surprised as anyone that I did it. As you can see from my comments in this closed topic https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/dealing-with-account-deletion/93 , I was among those concerned about accounts being deleted. I just need a day or two in or…

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see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mission-impossible-identify-plantae-in-africa/43528/290

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