Your mission, should you choose to accept it. NOW PLAYING August 1-31, 2023 at an identify modal ( ? ) near you! MISSION BRIEFING In this challenge we’ll visit “Darkest” [ 1 , 2 ] Africa. Over the course of the month, we’ll find out whether identifiers can make a difference for plant observations on …

Huge apologies but life has been way too busy to do much here but I was just curating the Unknowns and State of Matter project as I regularly do to get rid of [image] arboretum_amy: random ungrafted taxa and I found a certain Tony is no longer in the top five of leader boards - I had to give…

At the start of the last week we have our second last update. The number of Unknown obs have been obliterated in a big ID effort at the end of last week! Most seem to have shifted into the upper categories of Flora of Africa, which have been going down again over the weekend: a good sign. Obs leavin…

Encouraging to see the species moving to RG. That feeds into the next CV update.

Just saw that someone who identified many “unknowns” to mostly “dicots” has deleted his account - and all his ids and comments are gone…

Not just an African impact unfortunately! I miss the past hard work, and I appreciate the immediate efforts of many others to try to refill the sudden void. My particular thanks this week to @nikibifrost and @muddytortoise and @peakaytea who have filled in for my now-missing tag team partner at the …

I think it is as good a time as any to wrap up the ‘mission’ part of the project. Anyone is of course welcome to continue working on it, but I feel like we can gather some useful insights from the past month. Maybe to turn the thread/project to a more general ‘ID’ing in Africa’ focus than a time lim…

I hope that some of the new African plant identifiers might continue to ID, in their own slice and their own time - what is interesting and rewarding for them. I have done another 2K or so IDs in August. Time to change gear and slow down for me. I will still clear the African Pre-Mavericks - less t…

Thanks a bunch for the moderation operation! Back in Africa here, I hope to take a sort of narrative look back on the month over the weekend, plus I have a direct analogy of the identification process to certain chemical kinetics principles(!) where I can show some diagrams. ( @tonyrebelo that’s wh…

Here we have the final update for the month! Firstly a big thanks to everyone who helped to contribute, in ways big or small. Your help is appreciated and maybe you even learned a thing or two about the flora of africa! :) The project also seems to have sparked discussions on best practices which wi…

Thank you so much for all your summary posts! And wow, everyone accomplished quite a lot in a month - NO older Unknowns left? That’s astonishing.

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