Ok, so I deployed the new cohort upload:
https://metrics.wmflabs.org/cohorts/upload.  Hopefully the explanation and
examples make a bit more sense.  And I think it's much cleaner this way.
 It's also faster :)

As always, let me know if you have any trouble.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jessie Wild <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good catch, Dan!
>
> adding in the upfront option of indicating names or ids seems like a
> good/needed addition. I would recommend also including the definition of
> each as well - I think some of our users might get a little confused about
> the delineation just from the names (i.e., not realize that user_names are
> associated with user_ids).
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Dan Andreescu 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>> So, for now, until I figure out how to fix this, it will always prefer
>>>> user_names before user_ids.
>>>
>>>
>>>  I think this is an argument for making users specifying whether it's
>>> names or ids up front, and not allowing mixtures. Assuming it might be a
>>> mixture and looking for names first is almost certain to produce inaccurate
>>> results at some point. We have ids precisely to avoid collisions with
>>> names, allowing for renaming users, and other cases.
>>>
>>
>> Yep, I just learned this the hard way and made a fool of myself in front
>> of a bunch of people I admire.  So, I'd be glad if I'm the only one that
>> this happens to.  If nobody objects, I'm going to allow the user to select
>> whether their cohort contains user_ids OR user_names, and strictly prohibit
>> mixtures.
>>
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