A Project created in November of last year (Ohio Division of Wildlife) automatically collects any observations within its properties (wildlife areas, public hunting areas, fish hatcheries, etc). It currently has 99,000+ observations included. However, if I go to any of those observations, the project is not showing in the list of projects.
I’m not sure if this is a bug, or if there is a setting that needs changing?
Clicking on any of those Recent Observations (or any observation within the project), you will see that the Project is not showing on the list of Projects.
Observation found in the Project search by @taylorse
The exception is when I look at any of my observations, or any of the other (4) users that have joined the project. Shouldn’t the project show on the pages for all 90,000 observations, regardless of whether they have joined or not?
I think the project “badge” only shows on the individual observations for collection project members, so it seems to be working as designed. I’ll see if I can find where that was stated.
If that is how it’s meant to work, that is a shame. It’s probably to stop dozens of project badges showing on a single page, which I guess would make sense, but it also prevents users from finding out which projects their observations are contributing towards.
some observations qualify for tens, or even hundreds, of collections projects, so it would definitely be far too cluttered to show all of these on a single observation page
There is an account setting in the notifications section to be told if your observation was added to a project. Assuming the user hasn’t disabled those notifications or that collection projects aren’t an exception to that setting, it looks like they’d still be notified:
But the displayed list on an obs is limited to about 30 ? I often collapse, or expand again, that list as I ID.
Not sure what the actual limit is.
If I use Tony Rebelo as an example
He has MANY projects
A project, that I am now an administrator for, had one administrator contacting unknowing contributors directly within their observations asking them to consider joining the project. This was done in a very reserved, controlled way. I think I was only asked once. From inception March 26, 2021 the membership now sits at 415 members for a provincial project.
This is probably the avenue that I will take. If some of the top contributors join the project, the chance that other users will randomly see the badge on their observations will increase, and hopefully more people join on their own free will.
I would also if you can have active administrators keep the journal active with educational materials and educational opportunities that can draw people in but also give back to the community from within the project - use it for outreach. Feature invasives, species at risk, tips for encouraging species, and etc - give people a reason to bookmark it as a badge for quick access to be able to look at the project and use it as a resource. I noticed that the project you are mentioning has plenty of resource on their website but there is no link to that site in their about intro.
