Hi. This request was based on this Flag , as well as a number of disputes that have occured over taxon photos. I would really appreciate it if there was some way we could track and see who makes changes to Taxon Photos. I apologize if this seems managerial or entitled, and I cannot speak for everyo…

This is now live. Note that it only records changes to photos since we implemented the feature (literally minutes ago), so past taxon photo changes will not show in the taxon’s history. We also added some guidelines for taxon photos when disputes happen: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#taxo…

i would really appreciate a feature like this. one millipede species i am constantly working on fixing misidentifications for has repeatedly gotten entirely wrong species as the taxon photos! i wish i could ask people to not do that but so far there is no way to do so

I would like to see location specific taxon photos: a typically Australian example of a mammal/lizard/spider/daisy is different to a typically Peruvian one. That might sort out some of the tensions. There are other tension though: I am not at all interested in aesthetically pleasing default images. …

This would certainly be useful with Hymenoptera as well, where I’ve tried to do quite similar. I keep having to go back through several species that keep getting misidentified Flickr and Wikimedia* images added to them (largely at the species and genus level). I mean, blatantly misidentified. Others…

A possibility is to allow anyone to add a photo, but only curators can remove or replace photo(s).

It would be useful to get a notice. If anything changes in the pictures the whole ID may change. But users should be allow to add and remove.

[image] efmer: If anything changes in the pictures the whole ID may change. The feature request mentions taxon page, not observation pages. The issue of changing observation photos has been raised before :)

Another problematic example: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/540500 After this discussion in the link someone added two even less appropriate photos (first ones), one of which probably of another species. Considering that this issue was pointed out here two years ago I will not edit taxon photo…

I would also like to join in this request. In the last few days someone is messing up with the pictures of the most observed species in Argentina, resulting in broken images or selecting ones which are worse than those previously selected (they fall out of frame, over saturated colors, etc).

I agree with the sentiment above. It is very frustrating to put effort in updating photos for a taxa only to have some constantly changing the photos when the photo they are using is from Flickr or Wikimedia and isn’t even the correct taxa. There needs to be a way to atleast track who is making the…

Made a github issue since we now have a taxon history framework. https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3436

Track and view changes to taxon photos

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Star3 April 28, 2022, 11:24pm 14

Out of votes, but supporting.
Though it’s unnecessary, probably, since there’s already a github.

Unable to edit taxon images?

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Track and view changes to taxon photos

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