So I’ve been looking at setting up a project for things that struggle with ID here in New Mexico US, that also pique my interest. I have looked at the various lichen projects around (as posted on https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/64216-other-lichen-projects ) and I have a couple followup questions to people who have managed projects before. The question I have is: I’m not good at IDing lichens other than recognizing most of them. Would it be better if I didn’t do a project on something I don’t know?
The next one is how much (I read the how to page) work have y’all put into your “advertising” for your projects/groups?
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I came across this project recently - and enjoyed working thru that ‘random’ selection for my African slice https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252135679
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/unknown-reduction no reason why you should not make a similar project for yourself
As someone who’s created over 100 projects, I say try anything you like and if it doesn’t produce results, learn from it and try another version. I don’t advertise my projects but sometimes use the comment section of observtions to point them out to people who might be interested – “By the way, we have this project and I hope you’ll join it” sort of comment.
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Alright, that’s a motivation for me. I’ll get started and see where it goes. Thank you!
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I have another question. I have a Collection project, for all the genus’ of lichen and a trad project for those who have not been ID’d far enough. I can manually add the observations to the trad project, and have for the state, but I cannot for the collection project.
Does the collection project automatically search the observations every once in a while or how do I make ensure that new observations are going into it?
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Collection projects are basically saved searches. If the observations meet the criteria for the project, they will be included. If at some point later they no longer meet the criteria, they will not longer be in the project.
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Ok that’s what I thought from the “about projects” page but I wanted to be sure.
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