FINAL RANKINGS Jan 1 - Feb 28
We made it. Welcome to your new life as an iNat Identifier. That's right, you. You're in the small fraction of users who add IDs. Nice!
First off.... I want to thank the staff of iNat for making this whole experience possible. Without them, this website could not exist. All of y'all, please thank them -- if you can, with a personal anecdote or message. Maybe even buy them a drink (metaphorically speaking).
Have you made any IDs on iNat staff observations? Check by looking for your name on this list. This will display IDs you've made in the lifetime of your account, not just during this competition.
Okay on to the winners! I'm waiving the prize cap for this update, so you all can have prizes even if you've already had 4.
Improve%
Average (mean) improvement: 134%
Median improvement: 105%
1st @natashataylor (5,120 IDs added) 645.8422
2nd @philodendronjoe (16,195) 384.7723
3rd @matthewvosper (9,679) 326.9934
4th @zdanko (7,333) 214.2212
5th @troisha (240) 203.8961
6th @xpda (2,285) 203.0672
7th @abigstone (385) 198.4655
8th @tachysphex (4,002) 196.6433
9th @n_russell (2,858) 179.3668
10th @gillydilly (4,691) 178.4973
Old%
1st @sedgequeen 2,684
2nd @ddubois2 2425
3rd @graysquirrel 307
4th @xpda 250
5th @melodi_96 228
6th @alex_abair 207
7th @bobmcd 180
8th @navaneethsinigeorge 157
9th @zdanko 144
10th @naturalist_aditya 143
Great job! Each winner gets:
A meme, coming to your inbox soon
And permission to tag @trh_blue or @arboretum_amy for help on IDs, questions, etc., as much as you want until the end of 2021.
And, last of all: Total%
All of us together, 78 people, have added
172,451 IDs in just 58 days!
That's amazing. For perspective, if all of the users of iNaturalist were included in this competition, there would be 13,318 identifiers who made 1,544,447 qualifying IDs. So, our identifiers are 0.586% of total identifiers, but our IDs are 11.166% of the total IDs! Woo hoo!
As usual the full rankings are here. Thanks everyone for participating. Please leave feedback in the comments below. Even though the competition has ended, you are welcome to stay in the project in case we have any announcements of future events. Cheers and keep up those IDs!
Kommentit
Fantastic work everyone, this is amazing! 172k IDs should make a nice dent in the backlogs!
Special thanks @trh_blue and @arboretum_amy for all of your efforts for making this a fun successful event. Believable yet unbelievable in knowing that much identification could totally wipe out all of the unknowns as of 8:48PM PST. Well done everyone!
Glad to have been able to help coordinate this, but most of the work was done by you guys by your adding IDs. In a year and a half I've added about 160k on my own, but just a handful of determined people beat me in a mere 58 days. Impressive! It speaks to the collective power of iNatters to make a huge difference when working together, I think. The only reason I've made so many IDs is because I'm on sabbatical and can spend as much time as I want. It's way more realistic for most people to put in a little time here and there, but know that those small amounts of time really matter! Every ID you make lets you learn a little more.
I am astonished at how IDs some people made. Hell, I'm astonished at how many I made! This was wicked fun, I learned a lot, and I'm even more hooked on making IDs than I was before. Thank you so much for organizing this!
any way, at some point I'll make a post with a link to a form where I'd like to hear your ideas for a future event. One thing I know is that anything in the future will be between 3-4 days and 3 weeks, nothing this long again. Also interested in one geared specifically towards newbie identifiers with a more focused approach, or more opportunities for mentorship -- a more experienced identifier working with some novices to help them hone their skills.
Personally I feel I could be up for a one-month ID-a-thon every year in January, as like a year kick-off thing. Otherwise at any other time of year they could be 3 day or 7 day "IDblitzes" with just one ranking update at the end.
It would also be cool to have goals, such as for example "in this week-long event we aim to make unknowns decrease by 20k"
Between the lot of us and regular events we could probably destroy the entire Unknowns pile in under a year, and set up a program to keep the pile empty. Of course, the long term cure is onboarding and education, but the backlog is still there...
It's fun. Thanks to @trh_blue and @arboretum_amy for running this event.
We really did amazing! Grazie to amy and blue for having this idea, I'm sure everyone of us has learned something new while identifying.
I can't believe I more than doubled my IDs in those two months! I now have 1870 and started with only 774. Thanks, everyone!
The identifying work all of us have done is amazing! Can wait for next ID-a-thon!
Wow amazing work, everyone! I will certainly keep up ID’ing more, especially as I’m currently stuck at home for at least another 6-8 weeks with a VERY broken ankle...note to self, going out to make observations after snow has melted and re-frozen is NOT a good idea.
I love the idea of making some kind of ID-a-thon a regular occurrence during the “slow” winter months, and also love the suggestion for shorter ID-blitzes with a set focus (unknowns, commonly mis-ID’d species, observations specifically from new users, etc)
@esummerbell I can empathize with this. I broke my right leg in August 2015 and spent a lot of time identifying (6 wks) instead of riding our bicycles across Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan with my wife - one week before we were supposed to go. We did do it the following year. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
I know I was not in the id-a-thon but I was following along and it was great! Thanks for hosting!
@myles678 Hopefully you can join the next one :)
@arboretum_amy I hope so too! Where can I get news of the next one? Can you make a post about the next one here and tag me?
We don't have concrete plans for any more events yet, but if we come up with one I can definitely do a journal post here announcing it.
Superb job, folks. I have especially noticed @muddytortoise doing lots of hard work in the Indian unknowns - such a difference.
Thanks, @lera, although i wasn't a part of this ID-a-thon (this time).
I agree with you @lera, @muddytortoise is doing a very nice job by reducing unknowns as well as taking out obs from high-level like 'Life' or 'Animals'.
Some of you do too well a job of following up on coarse IDs! Waking up to 200+ notifications is no joke! ;)
Maybe we should make the next mini-ID-a-thon just following up on Blue's coarse IDs? (Kidding) (Mostly)
;-;
Is it mean that I love that idea? Hahah.
you know what, if you do it AFTER the notifications revamp I will allow it. In my very rough approximation I'd say there's 50-80k that have no followup whatsoever, but good luck finding a filter for that. and anyone who may have thought highly of me, after you see the tenth time I've missed a huge butterfly or mistyped and called a plant a fungus I daresay your respect will be put back down where it should be lmao
I wasn't far off! Of observations I've reviewed, there are 67,839 still at Kingdom level, and verifiable/ needs-ID. I'd say 10-15% are ones I skipped and didn't ID, so 57-61k were coarsely identified by me and need following up.
So remind me how to find your coarse IDs? It's still winter enough here that I could spend some time cleaning some of those up.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=1&lrank=subphylum&ident_user_id=trh_blue
this link would work, animals looks something feasible but if you replace it with plants, welp it's definitely a lot of stuff
I was trying https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=trh_blue&lrank=kingdom&place_id=any&subview=grid and that returns
77,737 obs
ugh well if you have to PLEASE tag me if I need to alter my ID due to mistake/etc. otherwise there's no way I'm going through all those notifications I would die
... maybe of exasperation, but more likely of old age. and I'm 23 so
:-)
also there's a new post I just put up, asking for feedback / brainstorming, please share your ideas edit: the form is super broken but I'm hungry so Imma fix it later
@trh_blue https://imgflip.com/i/50ngwo
Only three pages of Blue's animals in New England? Why, I'll knock that off before dinner.
(More kidding. Apparently, I'm a little giddy.) (Who am I kidding? I'm OFTEN kidding.)
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