Mushroom Observer

Mushroom Observer
Photograph of a Boletus edulis observation recorded on Mushroom Observer
Available in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
Owner Nathan Wilson
Website http://mushroomobserver.org
Registration Optional
Launched 2006
Content license
 Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike with or without "Noncommercial" restriction

Mushroom Observer is a collaborative amateur mycology website started by Nathan Wilson in 2006.[1] Its purpose is to "record observations about mushrooms, help people identify mushrooms they aren’t familiar with, and expand the community around the scientific exploration of mushrooms".[2]

The community of about 10,000 registered users collaborates on identifying the submitted mushroom images, assigning their scientific names by means of a weighted voting process.

All photographs are subject to a Creative Commons license that allows their reuse by others without the need for remuneration or special permission, subject to the terms of the license.[2] The software is open source and hosted on GitHub.[2]

Growth

As of 2013, the website contains about 126,000 user-submitted mushroom observations illustrated by 335,000 photographs.[3] In 2010, the website contained about 53,000 user-submitted mushroom observations illustrated by 101,000 photographs; up from 7,250 observations and 12,800 photographs in 2008.[1] In June 2018 Mushroom observer offers approx. 830,000 photos and 290,000 observations.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Wood, Michael (Summer 2008). "WebWatch: Observing Mushrooms" (PDF). Fungi Magazine. 1 (2). Retrieved 8 October 2010. Reproduced on the MykoWeb website.
  2. 1 2 3 "Introduction". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Site Statistics". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Site Statistics". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 26 March 2016. Images 599669, Observations 208462, Listed Taxa 51072, Observed Taxa 13184, Authored Name Descriptions 4312, Defined Locations 12812, Authored Location Descriptions 847, Species Lists 685, Species List Entries 89263, Proposed IDs 299937, Comments 113454, Votes 418612, Members 6558
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