On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Beware of user_touched; it's also triggered when _other_ people do things, like editing your talk page, or bulk operations like a batch change of some other user preference.
user_touched could be current on an account that hasn't logged in in years.
Right, I know user_touched will definitely overstate our active users. I was choosing it as a metric because I don't really find the "active users" report in MediaWiki to have any merit.
-Chad