iNat is really convenient to organize and conduct BioBlitz. I feel we could build some muscle on making iNat a go-to platform for IDBlitz or IDathon, if you will. Any thoughts?

I like the idea! The number of observations needing IDs can seem overwhelming at times. It can be a lonely pursuit working away on them, which suits some people (like myself) but not everyone. An event focusing on the ‘how-to’s’ and etiquette of identification might encourage more users to try it, t…

It’s a fun idea. One obstacle would be the frequently-discussed issue that a person can get credit for an ID by agreeing with already-suggested ID’s. An “IDathon” would tempt contestants to do a lot of those without even looking at them, and that would create a worse mess than leaving them un-ident…

I would suggest that when promoting it avoiding any focus on the number of ids or having any tables of how many ids people made would help.

Or, it could be an Unknowns+Life ID-a-thon. That allows for the largest possible set of participants, and you can track communal progress (total Unknowns IDed) rather than individual. Edit: Also, if we can get staff on board, maybe we can make this an annual end of year event. Pick a weekend in De…

i like the focus on identification, but honestly, i think that an annual effort for mass identification would not be ideal process-wise, unless the idea was that on a given day, experts all over the world devoted a day (or maybe a weekend) to hosting virtual meetings that showed others how to identi…

Agreed. There are tons of identifications that can be made with little expertise. Just requires engagement. (insect, arthropod, plant, fish, bird, etc.) People get anxious about the idea of mass identifications somehow equating to inaccuracy, but I worry that attitude’s more of a deterrent than a pr…

OK, have a bunch of disjointed thoughts y’all: It might be fun to talk over one of the iNat Discord chats while doing IDs. In smaller sub-groups ideally so that chat doesn’t get crowded. Sometimes these sorts of events are multi-day, with optional learning workshops available. I’d be happy to lead…

At the end of last year the folks in the US State of Illinois made a concerted effort to tackle our “unknowns” and got them down to near zero (there will always be some in that category). We didn’t have leaderboards, but we could see the count of “unknowns” drop as we collectively tackled them. I …

I really like this idea. The more observations gotten off of the “Unknown” board the better!

We are currently in a Southern Hemisphere Bioblitz. Plenty to ID. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/great-southern-bioblitz-umbrella I also wonder why some people have a HUGE number of obs, but NO IDs. Surely they can ID something at some level sometimes? They are here on iNat, they are observ…

Proposal for ID Hackathon

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Hey guys! I made a thing! Check it out.

Announcing the 2021 ID-a-thon (all welcome)

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Proposal for ID Hackathon

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