For this IdentiFriday we have a new project
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/placeholder-backup
We started mid-August in Southern Africa for me - and I keep up with the African ones. Yesterday we reached out to the rest of the world, and already have over a thousand obs.
Similar to working thru Pre-Mavericks, they can be easy clicks. We look for
Tiny typos from people battling with phonetics to convert a scientific name to spelling in their first or second language. If you filter for your own location you will recognise what they intended.
Missing species which need to be flagged for curation (for plants please find the POWO link for curators)
Perhaps - this obs is for - frog, owl, bat … cryptic in the gloom.
For IDs we would like to be able to use all the info the observer added.
Unless you are the observer, please do not edit the text in the observation field “Placeholder backup”.
Thank you.