UserMetrics used to return user IDs (the rationale is that in Product we may use the
output of a request for further analysis, and that's what user IDs are good for) and
Wikimetrics just followed the same implementation.
The existing metric cards in Mingle have "username" as a requirement for the
individual output on top of user ID (see [1]). I think this should be captured as a
separate card that would apply to all metrics: I agree it would be useful to have the
username added by default (no need to make it opt in or opt out as it's strictly
equivalent to a user ID).
Dario
[1]
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/701
On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sweet! thanks for the lookup tool
The chapter leaders at Iberoconf told me that they would prefer to just see the
usernames as the default. I suppose we could have the actual usernames be an
"opt-in," and the user_id to be the default? (I actually can't remember the
rationale behind user_ids in the first place, so if someone has specific points around
this, please share!)
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
If you need to quickly look up a username associated with an id, Special:Redirect exists
on all wikis.
Cool! In case people don't know what Steven's talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect
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