As I’m going through the thread and gleaning info to pull together in a launch post, I found this link doesn’t pull anything up for me. Also, I don’t know how to turn the project id number into a project name “slug” to go check out. Advice?
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The link does not pull anything for me either
Was that not the ‘draft collection project’ you made?
https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=project_id=174406
Then promptly deleted again.
In your opening post.
This will be the identify link for the new / active Mission Impossible project
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=174703&place_id=any
(Was at Kirstenbosch this morning - catching up - I see most of those are South African - I will work thru those separately) PS and also from one user ;~)
Sob PPS all from the ‘I don’t know’ other side of our country - but I will try …
One done - hoping for the next CV update
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Arg, thanks! If only I had procrastinated a bit more on that the other day, it would have ended up less confusing. When in doubt, procrastinate more. ;)
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FYI Discord says the invite link expires every 7 days
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Thanks! We’ll leave it for now and update later then. Otherwise, I have just completed the draft of the Mission Briefing in the first post. Let me know if anything is weird, broken or incomplete since it was a lot of copy/paste.
Next issue is duplicating such content for the journal of the M:I project. Journal posts are supposed to be in html code?! I haven’t done that since like, last century. So there might be a delay in journaling or else I’ll have to delegate to another project manager. Or do I just paste the first post into chatgpt nowadays and it’ll do the html translation work?
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Hmm… This is somewhat outside of my realm of expertise, but I’ll try to at least provide some course IDs whenever possible! :)
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Excellent! Even just sending some Unknowns to Dicot (if that’s what they are) will help during this challenge. I’m looking for changes in amounts of things, so be part of the change however you want!
Relatedly, if anyone’s used to not identifying coarsely in Africa, “take your limiters off” for this challenge. Do that coarse id’ing now, if that’s your comfort and capability zone. It’s all on the table to id. Part of what we want to see is whether that “works” or not, if people do it in Africa.
For science!
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Read it 3 times. Didn’t find any mistakes.
I have bookmarked your non-Cape URLs. With the starting K number in my label. Each day when I check I can see the numbers rolling down, says she hopefully.
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Worse: it’s not html, it’s markdown. So my last century knowledge isn’t even useful.
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Too bad we can’t add observations.
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Yellow label projects are JP’s coding
But, you name it, and TonyR has a project for it
Trees of Southern Africa
I discovered the Peters Projection (my choice is the last frame in the cartoon ;~) so many years ago when my Zurich library bought the freshly published book, and I took our annual opportunity to order my own at the library’s discount. Africa looks huge … because it is … huge. iNat uses a ‘colonial’ projection not equal area.
I haz a confuz. I added this to the project two days ago, but it doesn’t show up on the map? It has the link to prehistoric rock art in the comments.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56944372
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For Southern Africa there is ample expertise on INaturalist and that is where the vast majority of recoeds in INat are from. My own expertise is mainly in flora of tropical Africa and I do try to ID records whenever I come across them. It is a huge continent though with many different biomes and a hugh biodiversity, much of which is not very well known and often not well documented. I know there are a few other people on INat with expertise on tropical African flora but not many so it is not always easy to get things ID’ed. I have many records of plants from Africa that I have an ID for but they never get confirmed and frustratingly some are species with other records from various people and they end up all being confirmed (by me) except my own.
I think those with expertise in Tropical African Flora are all doing what they can to ID or confirm where this is possible from the available photographs,
Greetings and happy “hunting” for records,
Bart
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I will start with this slice. Broad planty IDs. Not South Africa. Sorted by date observed to group the easier / flowering plants. 31K today. And ? at the end of August.
Sorry - have broken this URL. It is still bringing me the South African stuff. Going back to clearing my previous URLs. Almost all my IDs are in Africa anyway,
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?per_page=100&order_by=observed_on&place_id=97392&photos=true&verifiable=true¬_in_place=+6986&hrank=phylum&lrank=class&project_id=12505&taxon_id=211194
@lotteryd lovely puff post from Tony on Flora of Africa. With finely crafted URLs.
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A Muse who creates his own works of art!
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-africa/journal/82630
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-africa/journal/82637
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-africa/journal/82642
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Thanks to everyone for putting this together. My amateur expertise is midwest prairie plants of the U.S., but I can at least recognize legumes and move those to family level!
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Sorry, no plant IDs from me. I got a stupid comment, that really put me off. But I might rescue animals from the unknown pile. There I can at least get them to order (I hope).
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Oof! I’m sorry you were affected that way during what is supposed to be a fun and helpful activity.
If anyone gets flack for their participation this month, feel free to @lotteryd on the obs, and/or hand them the link to this journal post: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mission-impossible-identify-plantae-in-africa/journal/82641-mission-briefing-for-august-2023-id-challenge
I’ll be happy to “take the heat” for anybody over increased identifier activity in Africa this month. ;)
Relatedly, I had figured in some post above that we’d need a copypasta about how to ignore or mute ids if some observers are bothered. Anyone have a link to a walkthrough thread or something like that?
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I’ve already gotten a number of unnecessarily curt comments myself. As someone who receives many, many, many notifications, I get they’re annoying… but it takes somewhere between 2 and 40 seconds – more often the former-- to add a coarse ID to your own observation. Significantly less time than it takes to get a notification, open it in a new tab, register the context, add your own ID, and also write a comment. There’s a three month grace period for a reason.
That said, I understand if you do not wish to engage. Anything you can do is appreciated and helpful – thank you!
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Well… In the end, I left off the grace period because Tony thought it would be OK without it- being in Random sort mode would deemphasize the more recent observations. I included the grace string in the first post this way:
If folks are getting pushback on recent obs more than others, I could redo the set of links to build that chunk in (as originally planned) to try to ameliorate the issue. Thoughts?
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