Woo! Bike sheds. So. There is no namespace table, and so the namespace is not an id.
So, I'm not sure that is necessary for the term "identifier" which I assume that "id" abbreviates. Regardless it seems clear that these numbers are thought of as primary identifiers of a namespace that can otherwise have many names. For example, see this snippet from the result of this query: http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases&format=jsonfm "1": { "id": 1, "case": "first-letter", "*": "Discusi\u00f3n", "subpages": "", "canonical": "Talk" }, Yay more names! Veteran researchers can rid themselves of the pain of old names, but new > researchers shouldn't have to deal with legacy naming. I don't see us getting rid of legacy naming right now. I don't see how adding a new name helps anyone -- veteran or newbie. However, if we were to develop a mapping of canonical names and pursue that from here forward, we might be able to move beyond the old names for the most important data sources in a few of years. However, I'm skeptical that we'll ever be able to change any production DB field names. -Aaron On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh I would never imply TOO verbose. I am a verbose kinda guy! > > > On Dec 10, 2014, at 16:20, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you suggesting we buck any ugliness of the xml field names and choose >> the most consistent and elegant ones we can think of?! :D :D >> > > Are you implying I'm too verbose? If so - you're right. And I like how > you put it. Yes. Just because many people have tried it different ways > doesn't mean they had the liberty to think of good, clear names that make > researchers happy. But that's exactly what our mission is here - so let's > make researchers happy. > _______________________________________________ > 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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