If someone could document the reasons why the userName is needed on this schema it will be great. They can be documented on the schema talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema_talk:ServerSideAccountCreation
When I looked at this issue early on it was not at all obvious to me why - if you have a user id- user_names would be necessary at all. Thanks, Nuria On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > and yes, I wish we had a gu_id included in ServerSideAccountCreation > (assuming MediaWiki knows it by the time the event is generated) > > On Jun 5, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am hoping we can recover the garbled usernames from the raw JSON logs, > but you’re correct about username changes. For project level counts, > though, they should not dramatically affect the accuracy of new > registration numbers. > > On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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