On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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