Saturday, April 18th at 6PM Central Daylight Time
(see date/time in your local timezone)
We’ll have a group chat on the iNaturalist Discord server, with @bouteloua (me!) screensharing / presenting, about what it’s like to be a curator on iNaturalist and what some of the common tasks are. If you’re already a curator, feel free to join in and add your perspective!
To attend, download Discord’s software or mobile app (there are issues viewing the stream in a browser)
- Join the iNaturalist Discord server: https://discord.gg/eCD4WvT
- Under Voice Channels, open the General chat a little before it starts
- Once @bouteloua begins screen sharing, you will need to Join Stream
- We have a concurrent text chat at #v-of-the-c too
- Please mute yourself when not talking :)
You can submit questions ahead of time here.
Basic outline:
- Who are iNaturalist Curators?
- What Curators can & can’t do
- Taxonomic curation
- External authorities & policies
- Adding missing species
- Ungrafted taxa
- Taxon changes
- Locked & “complete” taxa
- Taxon framework relationships
- Editing geoprivacy
- Spam patrol & false positive spam resolution
- Resolving flags
- Community Guidelines & moderation
- How to become a Curator
- Additional resources
- Q&A – you can submit questions ahead of time here
Hope to “see” you there!
—cassi