I suspect that the answer is #3. Maybe you could look for differences in
registered email addresses for that user in different DBs.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hmn. The user table should be updated; I can only
think of two situations
here:
1. There was a lag between collecting the information and the
information being used, and the change happened then;
2. There was a lag in the databases, and the change happened then;
3. The user didn't change their email address on whatever project we
queried (is it a global change? Can any developers chip in here?)
I've left some thoughts on that page regarding the privacy policy - I
understand the users' concerns but I don't think they're founded on a
valid interpretation. Hopefully it helps. Thank you, Leila, for your
ongoing work here :)
On 27 June 2015 at 17:30, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
For the article recommendation test, we queried user table to get
editors'
email addresses. We then excluded the emails that
were not verified.
We've
received a comment here that suggests the user
has changed his/her email
addresse and we have somehow retained the old email address. I'd like to
get
to the bottom of this problem. Can someone help
with this, in the Talk
page
or here? Are we looking at the wrong table? And
in general, how can old
information be in the user table?
Sorry for sending an email over the weekend. A response on Monday would
be
great. :-)
Thank you!
Leila
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