Mushroom Observer
| Mushroom Observer | |
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Photograph of a Boletus edulis observation recorded on Mushroom Observer | |
| Web address | http://mushroomobserver.org |
| Commercial? | no |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike with or without "Noncommercial" restriction |
| Owner | Nathan Wilson |
| Launched | 2006 |
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 4,000 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]
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]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Images from Mushroom Observer. |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wood, Michael (Summer 2008). "WebWatch: Observing Mushrooms". Fungi Magazine 1 (2). Retrieved 8 October 2010. Reproduced on the MykoWeb website.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Introduction". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ↑ "Site Statistics". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 22 June 2013.