Limiting and scheduling large taxonomy ancestry changes

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Hi folks, the changes described here have been deployed. Specifically:

  1. warnings on editing taxa with >1000 obs on or downstream of the taxon
  2. different warning on committing taxon changes with >1000 obs on or downstream of any of the input taxa
  3. only staff or relevant taxon curators can edit certain parts of a taxa (e.g. ancestries) with >200k obs on or downstream of the taxon
  4. only staff or relevant taxon curators can commit taxon changes with >200k obs on or downstream of any of the input taxa

So if you want to do 3 and don’t have permissions, please flag the taxon and mention me or a relevant taxon curator

If you want to do 4 and don’t have permissions, you can still make the draft but mention me or a relevant taxon curator

Taxon curators: even though you have permissions, please hold off on 3 or 4 until we’ve had a chance to touch base. I’m going to try to get some general guidance to post here, and also reach out to you individually.

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the Vespoidea are all still corrupted by the bug that is now fixed, but we still haven’t fixed the corrupting. We’re still trying to find a way to speed up reindexing the millions of obs effected by this bug before it was fixed

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