Marina, this project of unknown things might be something you could look at if you still need something to put your mind to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/unknown-hexapoda
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I’ll look at those, thank you!
I was pleased to see the number of Unknowns worldwide dip below 270,000 this morning. (Those are Verifiable, identify=false Unknowns, if you’re curious.) Thank you to the Unknown Identifiers!
And thank you to people like Marina who come along and take my Insects, or Ferns, or Spiders much farther along!
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Today I finished my weeks “assignment” and went through all Pisaurina that needed ID… that dropped the “over 700” pages mentioned a week ago to 677 … almost done I guess ;-D
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If an observer uploads an observation as Unknown, but opts out of the community taxon, there’s no way to get the observation out of Unknowns - is that correct? Adding an ID doesn’t work, obviously, but clicking “as good as it can be” doesn’t seem to work, either.
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Opted out? Is it a good clear picture, adequate to ID - your call.
Not able to ID? You can use the other DQA - location incorrect, whatever - but since we are asked not to … when I see Opted Out, I mark as Reviewed. Not wasting my time on that, thanks.
When the opted outs bounce up again in Needs ID with a (futile!!) queue of trusted identifiers - I leave an Opted Out comment, to warn any subsequent identifiers.
Perfectly adequate photo, good date and location, so I could give it a good general ID, but that won’t “stick,” and I prefer not to use the DQA for purposes they weren’t designed for. But your idea of a comment is a good one - I tried to ID four such observations before I noticed the observer had opted out.
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It’s Friday!!
And a very, very cold one here. The temperature is dropping to 8F (-13C) over the day and tonight it is predicted to drop to -12F (-24C). COLD. Also quite windy today and tonight. (And yet back in my day, you youngsters, -12F was not an unusual temperature in winter.) (Yes, I’m old. Highly experienced, let’s call it.)
So a good day for making IDs. I am still plugging away at the Unknowns from the 2022 CNC. We are making good progress, whoever “we” are - we are down to around 7,800 Unknowns left. When I started, a month or so ago, there were a little more than 24,000.
When I get bored with that, I go look at all Unknowns world-wide, which currently stands at 258,861. That is a very satisfying number, because it is down by at least 10,000 from when I started paying attention to the number. I think jeanphillipeb’s Unknowns projects are having the desired effect.
And when I get bored with those, I go poke at the Needs ID plant observations in New England and think about how best to work on those.
Maybe I’ll aim for 500 IDs today.
What are you all up to today?
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On my screen, it says 345,487 unknowns
Need any help?
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From 24K to 8K oh wow - well done to that team of identifiers!!
My peripheral vision is enjoying @jeanphillipeb 's yellow banners, either for the quiet supporting agreement - or for - okay let us try that …
Started planty limbo in the Western Cape with 14K just over 2 weeks ago … fighting to get it down to 13K … maybe I will hit that halfway mark today or over the weekend? A month for every K? But there have been some interesting discussions to follow. And a few that could be tweaked to RG with one more ID.
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This is the URL I use for Unknowns world-wide: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=unknown&identified=false&place_id=any&quality_grade=needs_id
If I leave out the identified=false (which removes, bacteria, protists, State of Matter Life, etc.), I get 330,149 currently. (URL https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=unknown&place_id=any&quality_grade=needs_id)
So what URL are you using?
And I always need help!
Yes, @jeanphillipeb’s projects are leading me down some interesting rabbit holes, I must say.
ETA: And you are taking Unknowns down much farther than I am, in terms of identification. You are trying to get things to genus or species; I’m happy just saying Ferns or Anisoptera and letting the real experts take over. That’s the only reason I can make so many IDs of Unknowns world-wide so quickly.
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You can’t change an opted-out Unknown with 1 ID, but a total of 2 IDs of any ID level will bounce that Unknown automatically to Casual without having to add any DQA flags! Then they can stay filed there until the person comes back to update.
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&iconic_taxa=unknown
I was using this one
but https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=unknown&place_id=any&quality_grade=needs_id seems to be more useful. (I did not know about this link lol)
Edit : I normally specialize in the “Oxalis” genus (Woodsorrels) but today im going to venture out into the weird and wacky world of ‘Unknowns’
Edit 2 : Found an endangered species lurking in ‘Unknown’
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I use 2 separate urls. For just Unknowns including my reviewed, I see 2.589e5 (judging by page count) from
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&order=asc&without_taxon_id=48460%2C1126112%2C67333%2C131236%2C151817%2C48222 (I just like to screen the weird ones out by taxon)
Then for Life where there’s more drama (so I look at them separately), I see 5.14e4 from
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&order_by=updated_at&lrank=stateofmatter
Total is 3.103e5 - I think it was bigger a few weeks ago, good work team! :)
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Oh, interesting! I did not know that - thanks, @lotteryd!
Not an endangered species (I think), but this got the botanists all excited: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147297228
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Fascinating that there are different numbers with different URLs.
I’ve been reviewing 2 separate groups in the last week. The first is succulent monocots in the Asparagus family in the southwest USA - sorting high level observations to genus (Agave, Hesperaloe, Nolina, Sotol, or Yucca) - and the second is Diadasia bees in North America - sorting to subgenus or complex and marking “good as can be” when that’s true https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&taxon_id=121512&lrank=subgenus&place_id=9853
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I saw some of my bees come up. Thanks!
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