Tips and tricks
HTML codes allowed in descriptions etc
a, abbr, acronym, b, blockquote, br, cite, code, dl, dt, em, embed, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, iframe, img, li, object, ol, p, param, pre, small, strong, sub, sup, tt, ul
eg <strong>strong text</strong>
eg <i>italic text</i>
eg <strike>struck out text</strike> (works in descriptions if not here)
eg <ins>inserted text</ins> (works in descriptions if not here)
eg <a href="http: //google.com">link to webpage</a>
eg <img src="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1205897/small."> Scale.
(or <a href="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1205897/large."><img src="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1205897/small."></a> Scale)
<a href="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6780950/large.jpeg"><img src="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/6780950/small.jpeg"></a> Scale
Scale.
<img src="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1277427/small."> Bellbird bands.
<img src="http://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1328500/small.jpg"> Kaka bands.
Kaka bands
Tuatara bands at Zealandia : "All the animals have been individually marked with a unique combination of beads adjacent to their neck crest. The larger animals may have 3 beads each side, the smallest 1 bead. The beads on each side are a mirror image of the other so you only need to see the beads on one side. To record the colour combination, list the bead colours in order from the outside edge to the inner-most one next to the spine."
Change "primary" photograph / reorder photos in an observation
You can change the order of photographs you have uploaded for an observation. You might want to do this to select which image is displayed as the main image for that observation (ie number 1) or put a sequence of images into chronological order.
When in edit mode for the observation you will see a "Re-order photos" link beneath the photos, that will take you to a page where you can enter numbers to determine the order of display.
Looking for images suitably licensed for use on wikipedia?
Try: https://inaturalist.nz/observations?filters_open=true&has[]=photos&photo_license=CC-BY&view=table
and: https://inaturalist.nz/observations?filters_open=true&has[]=photos&photo_license=CC-BY-SA&view=table
Looking for observations in a particular project?
Add projects[]=project-name to the search URL
eg To find all my observations in "Animal footprints" project:
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/tony_wills?q=&order_by=observations.id&view=table&projects[]=animal-footprints
Note that "project-name" is the name you will find in the URL of the project's page (generally the project name converted to lowercase and spaces converted to hyphens)
Adding a link to another observation?
If people follow links from iNaturalist to NatureWatchNZ of visa-versa they find themselves not logged in. So instead of just pasting a link to another observation as http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/985491, enter a relative URL in the form of an HTML link <a href="/observations/985491">985491</a> which will give 985491 and takes people to the observation but leave you in which-ever system you are logged in to.
