Umbrella project: emphasize species by default

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Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: website

URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: https://mexico.inaturalist.org/projects/biodiversidad-de-mexico-estado-x-estado

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Feature request details: At present, umbrella projects present a bar graph showing the different individual projects order by the number of observations. This arrangement motivates participant to get more observations instead of more species. I would request changing the default to show the individual projects arranged by decreasing species. In this way people would be more motivated to increase the number of species.
This is particularly relevant for the umbrella projects in the City Challenge where people upload lots of repeated observations…

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I think I’d be OK with this, or letting a project owner/curator choose.

One potential side effect could be people adding false IDs or observations to increse the project’s species count.

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I was thinking of making a feature request where the owner of the umbrella project could choose to display projects in alphabetical order, rather than ranked by any number. I was also thinking about this of this due to the City Nature Challenge.

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Every time I look at the results, I click to species.
This is not a sticky setting, and I cannot bookmark the URL at sp.
Click click click.

@tiwaneif you are tweaking the display in future - could we add % at RG ? Since that varies from about 4 to 60 for CNC 25.

Running the Geomodel Anomaly against CNC obs, could trigger a popup to pre-empt careless sp choices - that is not found here, are you sure?

@carlos2 remember to vote for your own feature request

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