Mushroom Observer

{{Short description|Mycology website}}

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| name = Mushroom Observer

| logo =

| screenshot = Mushroom Observer screenshot.PNG

| screenshot_size = 300px

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| caption = Photograph of a Boletus edulis observation recorded on Mushroom Observer

| url = https://mushroomobserver.org

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| language = English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish

| registration = Optional (for viewing), Required (for voting and commenting and creating observations)

| owner = Mushroom Observer, Inc.

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| launch_date = 2006

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| content_license = Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike with or without "Noncommercial" restriction

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Mushroom Observer is a collaborative mycology website started by Nathan Wilson in 2006.{{cite journal|last=Wood|first=Michael|title=WebWatch: Observing Mushrooms|journal=Fungi Magazine|date=Summer 2008|volume=1|issue=2|url=http://www.mykoweb.com/articles/Web%20Watch--Mushroom%20Observer.pdf|accessdate=8 October 2010}} Reproduced on the [http://www.mykoweb.com/blog/2009/webwatch-observing-mushrooms/ MykoWeb] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810135000/http://www.mykoweb.com/blog/2009/webwatch-observing-mushrooms/ |date=2011-08-10 }} website. 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".{{cite web|title=Introduction|url=https://mushroomobserver.org/observer/intro|work=Mushroom Observer|accessdate=8 October 2010}}

The community of about 12,000 contributing 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. The software is open source and hosted on GitHub.