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