Regretfully, looking up a user in Centralauth requires the use of a username. Then again, you'd need to join with a user table (with user_id) anyway since users can be renamed after they create their account and that name change won't be reflected in ServerSideAccountCreation.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Dario Taraborelli < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> • Use event_userId whenever possible > > > This is really a best practice everyone should follow in all analysis. > Unless you're qualitatively interested in the contents of usernames, any > analysis that uses unique names instead of ids should probably be treated > as highly suspect. > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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