Re: [Analytics] Question around wikimetrics output

-- Jaime Anstee, Ph.D Program Evaluation Specialist Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6869 www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org* On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.orgwrote: > Now I remember. I was using username in the first prototype and Jaime > identified that as a problem. I can't remember if it was for privacy or > legal reasons, but I've cc-ed her personally so she can chime in. > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Dario Taraborelli < > dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> 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@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@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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Jessie Wild >> Grantmaking Learning & Evaluation * >> *Wikimedia Foundation* >> * >> * >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> >