Research:Account Creation Referrals/Clicktracking

Event naming scheme

The general naming scheme used for the Account Creation Referrals project is the following:

'ext.accountCreationReferrals@' + version + '-' + key

where version is the version number as set in the configuration file and key is the event label, as specified below.

Identifiers

Event IDs

create_account_link-click

Clicks on the "Create one" link from Special:UserLogin

create_account_button-submit_attempt

Clicks on the "Create account" submit button

create_account_button-submit_success

Impression of the account creation confirmation page

Additional data

The log should include as additional data (as the last field of each log record) a pipe-separated value: protection_level|page_title|rev_id|user_id.

• protection_level: protection type of the referral page:
  • 0: unprotected
  • 1: semiprotected
  • 0: fully protected
• page_title: title of the referral page, including namespace
• rev_id: revision id of the referral page
• user_id: id of newly created user (only available upon successful account creation)

Full list of events

Unless otherwise specified all events are tracked at 100%.

create_account_link-click
create_account_button-submit_attempt
create_account_button-submit_success

Log format

Clicktracking data is stored via a filter on emery using the following, tab-separated format:

enwiki ext.accountCreationReferral@0-create_account_button-submit_success 20120113013257 1 w4dtyfWSw714KsgmMAAkdC7isy8CmHvP9 -1 0 0 0 0 0|Pokémon|274278|156171

Log format specification

1. project name (e.g. enwiki or ptwikisource)
2. event name (as documented above)
3. timestamp (in YYYYMMDDhhmmss format)
4. user category: 1 for logged in users, NULL for anons
5. user token: an anonymous token replacing user names or IP addresses
6. namespace: (-1 for Special)
7. lifetime edit count (0)
8. 6-month edit count (0)
9. 3-month edit count (0)
10. last month edit count (0)
11. additional data (protection_level,page_title, rev_id, user_id)

Data collection

Events and deployments that affected the collection of clicktracking data are documented here