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This list will be updated with Identify links, places to check your progress, info on workshops, and more.

People
Master List of participants
Blue's profile -- main admin
Amy's profile -- co-admin
Even's profile -- co-admin
@radak's profile -- programmer

Identification Guides
slideshow: Identifying Unknowns for Beginners
iNat Getting Started guide
True Flies of the United States -- moderate challenge level

Rankings/Stats

weekly full rankings -- all categories
this is updated manually, if something is missing let me know

How many IDs did I have before the competition started? (takes a minute to load)

tool created by @pisum (thanks)

Posted on January 3, 2021 04:36 AM by astra_the_dragon astra_the_dragon

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I wonder if your count system is working. I have done a bunch of IDs and I thought they fit the criteria (earlier than Oct 2020) but I don't show up on your list, and no one on the list currently (Jan 3 about 1200 GMT) has more than 5 IDs, which seems extremely low. It's all for fun so not a big deal, but just checking.

Posted by janetwright about 3 years ago

Do you mean identifiers of observations in the project? Because the observations are of my cat. The project's observations have no relation to the ID-a-thon, per se. Did you read the FAQ post? Does it need further clarification?

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

I added a line there regardless.
There are a few reasons I didn't make the project's observations the ones you'd identify for the competition.
One, there are multiple categories, so I'd have to make several projects, splitting attention. Two, the project cannot differentiate the date IDs were added, only the observation date. Three, I don't want to put focus on volume of IDs, rather on individual self-improvement and collaboration, and having a leaderboard where people are ranked by number of IDs is counter to that ethos.

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

I put a little blurb about this in the description of the project itself, so hopefully some people will see it there.

It would also just be completely and utterly impractical to add all eligible observations to this project, since that would be every existing iNaturalist observation made before October!

Posted by arboretum_amy about 3 years ago

Sorry, I get it now that the project site is not intended to show the number of IDs we make but is just there for the journal. That was unusual so I didn't understand at first. What is meant, then, by "check your progress"? If there is a place to do that I don't get what it is.

Posted by janetwright about 3 years ago

that's a good question. I do plan on having links where you can check your current progress in real time, I just haven't set them up yet. I'm trying to set up a semi-automated system, so the initial time investment is a bit high, thus the delays. Before the first Rankings post on January 10th, all the main categories will be fully set up, as well as many of the mystery% categories, if not all of them. Obviously I will only reveal each mystery% at the end of its week, but all other links will be available.
FWIW, I don't suggest checking your progress too often. Better to focus on having fun and not stress over it.
That said, I'm 10000% a person who checks her rankings and progress impulsively...

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

The number of ‘unknowns’ have begun to decrease quite quickly! I don’t know whether your workshops have had a hand in that, but I suspect they have 😊 Thanks!

Posted by lisa_bennett about 3 years ago

I hope so. I've been very sick today so that's a bit of good news.

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

Maybe you can update the count in the Forums @bobmcd and or @lotteryd or someone

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

There has been some slight improvements here and in other cases growth. The first number is the taxon number and the second two set in brackets are Dec 8, 2020 and Dec 10, 2021

Both growth and diminishing numbers can represent positive activity on single suggested ids and "Unknowns". Changing a single id thought to be Red Algae to a new suggested Brown Algae will cause a conflict resulting in "State of matter Life" -assuming that the original ID was incorrect and the second is correct means an observation that others had not wished to debate is now moving in the correct direction - it just now needs the proper balance to reach community ID. The however here is that in this example, both Red Algae and Brown Algae numbers increase by one.

Fungi and Lichens - 47170: (4,035); (4,105)
Slime Moulds - 47684: (1,165), (1,141)
Cyanobacteria - 67334: (455); (452)
Green Algae - 50863: (796); (782)
Red Algae - 57774: (794); (751)
Brown Algae - 48220: (932); (896)
Sac Fungi - 48250: (1,551); (1,592)
Animal - 1: (3,292); (3,418)
Plant - 47126: (4,836); (4,784)

I may hold off before I add to the forum post. There is a little more work involved and there are a few other things on my plate.

Posted by bobmcd about 3 years ago

kjcvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@trh_blue You claimed in the Identifying Unknowns for Beginners slideshow that identifying as "Life" is helpful. How? The observation stays in Unknown, so it's not really more likely to be seen by other identifiers.
(The first line was my cat.)

Posted by fluffyinca about 3 years ago

LOLLL my cat does that too!
It's still helpful because there's a small group of people who specifically search for Life (vs obs with no ID at all). It's an indicator that you looked at it but could not classify it, which means that it's a more difficult observation than your average Unknown. Observations at State of Matter: Life also include instances of Kingdom-level conflict, e.g. someone mistook a sponge (animal) as a plant.

Posted by astra_the_dragon about 3 years ago

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