Hello everyone,
This weekend (from today until Sunday end of the day), a few of us Wikidata
/ biodiversity enthusiasts are hosting a so-called iNaturalist BioBlitz
<https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wikidatacon-2021-bioblitz>. We invite
all of you to participate!
If you are attending WikidataCon, you are probably spending a lot of time
indoors behind your computer screen. Why not take a break, get some
fresh air, take a walk in your surroundings, and do some very easy
citizen science? Take some photos of the plants, insects, birds,
mushrooms... around you, and contribute data and images to a worldwide
biodiversity observation dataset
<https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425ef4a7> which
is also heavily re-used on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=p%3Ainaturalist&search=p%3Ainaturalist&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns120=1>
and other Wikimedia projects
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:INaturalist_images_reviewed_by_iNaturalistReviewBot>,
by many enthusiastic volunteers
<https://www.youtube.com/c/WikipediaWeekly/search?query=inaturalist>! :-)
Contributing is easy!
* Sign up for iNaturalist <https://www.inaturalist.org/signup> (you can
check its privacy policy <https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/privacy>) if
you haven't done so already. Make sure to adjust the default license of
your images to a Wikimedia-compatible license (CC0 or CC-BY are preferred)
via Account settings > Content & Display.
* Go to
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wikidatacon-2021-bioblitz and
join the project (top right of the page).
* Take a walk around your neighborhood and take photos of flora and fauna.
You can upload them to your iNaturalist account via one of its mobile apps
or through its web interface.
* Any observations that you make between today and Sunday (end of the day)
will automatically be added to the BioBlitz.
See the map of current observations here
<https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wikidatacon-2021-bioblitz> (scroll
down). Please dethrone me! :p Let's make this map a worldwide and very
(bio)diverse one!
Have fun and see you at WikidataCon!
Sandra, Andra and Tiago