GiraffeSpotter: Merged ID Logs

What Wildbook should this feature be in?
GiraffeSpotter

What would you like to see?
(Perhaps it already exists) but we have recently been merging IDs in some of our sites as we clean up older and imported datasets. Are these merging events somehow logged in the system, or do they need to be manually recorded?

How would this functionality help you?
We want to verify the identity of merged individuals and have a metric for how many individuals are merged when we import older databases.

If requesting a new location ID, include

  • Is this is nested beneath another location in the hierarchy?
  • Is there a prefix for region-based naming? (optional)
  • GPS coordinates in decimal format (optional)

Note: Not all feature requests can be accepted, but all of them are reviewed by our product team. We’re unable to provide implementation timelines for accepted requests. We are a small team with many competing priorities. Thanks for your understanding!

Hi @mbrown

If an individual has been merged, you will see it logged in the audit trail/researcher comments on the Individual page.

There is an open ticket regarding the visibility of merge actions as they’re currently only visible to admins but not org admins if they didn’t handle the merge themselves: Researcher Comments on Marked Individual Page only visible to admins · Issue #1138 · WildMeOrg/Wildbook · GitHub