Editing Development roadmap (section)

== Technical and Philosophical Roadmap ==

=== Minimize Human Labor in Data Entry ===
* '''Stephen Russell''' emphasized automation as a key to scalability: ''“The more humans have to do, the less scalable and less sustainable the project is.”''
* '''Alan Rockefeller''' created [[User:Taxonomybot]], a Pywikibot that edits articles.   Currently it makes sure each article has a ''References'' section which links to all sequenced observations of each taxon / provisional species name.

=== Crowdsourced AI Training ===
* '''Stephen Russell''' proposed developing a "FungiAI" to automate tasks like:
** Detecting fungi in photos.
** Cropping images for training sets.
** Writing draft species descriptions from annotated images.
** Assisting in identification.
* The training and validation sets would be crowd-sourced, benefiting the global mycological community.

=== ITS Stability and Biogeographic Patterns ===
* '''Myco Geeky''' noted that platforms like this could help track population-level stability in the ITS region over time. This may reveal:
** Cryptic speciation.
** Substrate-linked divergence.
** Sequence variation correlated with ecological or morphological shifts.

=== Interoperability with Other Platforms ===
The wiki could connect to other databases (e.g., iNaturalist, GenBank, MycoPortal) and serve as a central hub for species-level synthesis, rather than a competing system.

=== Long-Term Vision ===
Species pages could serve as living records that organically grow into formal, peer-reviewed descriptions over time. Authorship and contribution credit will be transparently documented.