So in 2017, iNaturalist introduced annotations , which is a way to add metadata to an observation in an iNaturalist-controlled way rather than relying on the free-for-all that is observation fields. We wanted to start out with some basic ones, such as Sex and Life Stage, as well as Plant Phenology (w…

Hmm, the sex annotation for plants has been there for me since annotations were added to the site. I’ve learned to mostly just ignore/glaze over it, but do wish it were gone…

I also have noticed that with the recent update the order of annotations for flowering plants has changed. It used to be phenology first, but now it’s sex first. I’m not sure why - it’s still life stage before sex for insects and it doesn’t even make sense in terms of alphabetical order since P come…

Oh, thank you! I was wondering if I’d imagined that the order used to be the other way.

Suggestion: Termites and Ants: It would be handy to be able to filter all the adult obs to see just the alate (winged) stage. If the larva is the grub, then all workers, drones and queens are adults. So to achieve this, can we have an ‘alate’ stage added to Formicidae and Termitoidae?

… not really a suggestion for a new manual annotation: However, for Lepidoptera (and perhaps other taxa), could the automatic ID algorithm be used to automatically fill in “caterpillar” or “adult”? I guess it is easy to recognise, and most observers don’t bother to use the annotation.

I know it’s something usually done through flags, but i think it better fits forum. English annotation for plant phenology “budding” wasn’t clear not only for most users, but for those who translated it too, in Russian it’s called “почкование” that’s clearly is not about flower bud specifically, thi…

[image] marina_gorbunova: English annotation for plant phenology “budding” wasn’t clear not only for most users, but for those who translated it too, in Russian it’s called “почкование” that’s clearly is not about flower bud specifically, this choice of word always got me confused (I didn’t know…

[image] marina_gorbunova: Now I know it’s about flowering and should be called something like “Бутон(ы)” as I can’t word it as a process in Russian. To suggest a different translation for “budding” in Russian, if you create a Crowdin account you can find the terms to translate here: https://c…

Thank you! I asked the curator of Russian plant community here on iNat and added the translation “Бутонизация”. It will work for flowering budding, if there will be a split, for leaf budding “Набухание почек” should be used.

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bouteloua November 6, 2019, 12:03pm 105

there’s this topic: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-computer-vision-to-annotate-observations/3331

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