@Niharika , correct me if I'm wrong, but for option 2 we actually don't need to retain the User ID; The entire row is a picture of what random-user did in the form, so the user id or username itself doesn't matter. Is that right?

For option 1, either User ID or Username or Session ID may be required so we can tell how many of those rows were made during the same interaction within the form.

Is that right?

In T224958#5326622, @Mooeypoo wrote:

@Niharika , correct me if I'm wrong, but for option 2 we actually don't need to retain the User ID; The entire row is a picture of what random-user did in the form, so the user id or username itself doesn't matter. Is that right?

For option 1, either User ID or Username or Session ID may be required so we can tell how many of those rows were made during the same interaction within the form.

Is that right?

You're absolutely right. We don't need the identifier in the second option. And yes, for first option, any unique id (1,2,3... is fine too) will work.

Here is the schema for our data capture. Feel free to make changes and I'll fix up the patches
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:SpecialMuteSubmit

@Niharika I think we might need approval from someone on the analytics team. Do you know who can we ping here?

@nettrom_WMF might be able to help!

Change 528272 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dmaza; owner: Dmaza):
[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Add instrumentation to Special:Mute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528272

Change 528274 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dmaza; owner: Dmaza):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] [WIP] Add instrumentation for Special:Mute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528274

In T224958#5394397, @dmaza wrote:

@Niharika I think we might need approval from someone on the analytics team. Do you know who can we ping here?

I've added Analytics to the list of projects so they can track this. Not sure what the process is for other teams as I've only done this with the Growth team (where we go through the instrumentation DACI and that includes Analytics review and approval). Might want to ask them on IRC to get clarification and learn if a specific person should be pinged.

We just want to be involved if you want to whitelist data to be kept more than 90 days. Other than that, you don't need any approval from us. We're happy to look over your schema and give advice about how easy data would be to load into, for example, Druid.

@Milimetric @nettrom_WMF correct me if I'm wrong but other than annotating that the schema is active[1] there isn't anything else I need to do to start logging events other than deploying the code[2] that would make use of it, right?

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema_talk:SpecialMuteSubmit
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/528274

@dmaza: yes, and keep in mind data is being automatically purged after 90 days.

Change 528272 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Add instrumentation to Special:Mute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528272

Change 528274 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] Add instrumentation for Special:Mute

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/528274

When I submit the Special:Mute page on beta, on deployment-eventlog05.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs I see the event logged in /srv/log/eventlogging/all-events.log as:

{
  "dt": "2019-08-21T15:27:53Z",
  "event": {
    "emailsAfter": true,
    "emailsBefore": false,
    "notificationsAfter": true,
    "notificationsBefore": false
  },
  "ip": "172.16.4.119",
  "recvFrom": "deployment-cache-text05.deployment-prep.eqiad.wmflabs",
  "revision": 19265572,
  "schema": "SpecialMuteSubmit",
  "seqId": 6204900,
  "userAgent": {
    "browser_family": "Firefox",
    "browser_major": "60",
    "browser_minor": "0",
    "device_family": "Other",
    "is_bot": false,
    "is_mediawiki": false,
    "os_family": "Linux",
    "os_major": null,
    "os_minor": null,
    "wmf_app_version": "-"
  },
  "uuid": "d52b1f9858bf5ff59e00d58f151cee20",
  "webHost": "en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org",
  "wiki": "enwiki"
}

And in the log.SpecialMuteSubmit_19265572 database on the same server as:

The "emailsAfter", "emailsBefore", etc. appear to be accurate.

Environment

https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org
MediaWiki 1.34.0-alpha (07163a2) 08:16, 22 August 2019