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 …

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.

I put the raw data in a comment in the journal post if anyone wants to have a look themselves https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/83883-final-numbers-update-2023-09-01#comments

Back at the beginning of August I was pegging away. Thanks to August identifiers. Who have become September identifiers. Today my African Unknowns are zero! Never thought I’d see the day.

[image] DianaStuder: Today my African Unknowns are zero! Thanks for the nudge about those Araceae.

This is the first half of what I was waiting for. The last 10 August days will be in the next / October update. https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/84723-a-new-computer-vision-model-v2-7-including-1-785-new-taxa trained on data exported last month on August 20th The URL is clunky - but if you start…

Deliberately adding an incorrect ID to an observation is a violation of iNat terms of service

If it is not Life. Then it is No Evidence of Life. And that is wrong in my book. But I will no longer mark them ‘Good as can be’ as that is generating broad planty IDs at Casual. Which serves no useful purpose.

Marking a photo of a plant as no evidence of life is a violation of the iNat terms of service. I was looking for a link, and saw these instructions that violated TOS, and was concerned someone might come along later and read them without context

My biggest issue with “Life” is that it essentially bumps things all the way back to unknown. State of matter Life is included by default when you select unknowns for identifications. There is a URL hack to exclude it, but how many people know about it? If the goal is to reduce the number of unknown…

Mission: Impossible - Identify Plantae in Africa

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lynnharper September 22, 2023, 11:14am 290

Wow, that’s great!

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Mission: Impossible - Identify Plantae in Africa

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