We should also let users add their IRC nicks

pyfisch wrote:

I would also like to have an an option to add the Username in other Wikimedia wikis which are using SUL.

(Question: Why is Wikitech not connected over SUL to the other wikis? For security reasons?)

Yes, we are already collecting (manually) IRC and mediawiki.org (aka SUL) username(s).

(In reply to comment #2)

I would also like to have an an option to add the Username in other Wikimedia
wikis which are using SUL.

(Question: Why is Wikitech not connected over SUL to the other wikis? For
security reasons?)

Wikitech is not in the normal Wikimedia cluster. Its authentication is LDAP backed and integrates with Labs, gerrit, and a few other web services.

I do have a plan on how to make this work eventually, though:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Authentication_improvement_project#OpenID_as_a_consumer_of_SUL

Another idea from wikitech-l: allow users to define their periods of affiliation to certain organization e.g.

• Before Nov 2012: independent.
• Since Nov 2102 until now: Wikimedia Foundation

Appparently Metrics Grimoire already can take this data and operate accordingly with it.

Yes, it is supported by VizGrimoireR:

https://github.com/VizGrimoire/VizGrimoireR/blob/master/misc/domains_analysis.py#L49

At this point, it would make more sense to take as reference Wikimedia Phabricator users instead of wikitech.wikimedia.org users...

Needs to support multiple affiliations

Currently multiple affiliations can be assigned to a user, but for different time periods (i.e. until January 2015 Mary was Independent, from February 2015 Mary is affiliated with WMDE). Multiple affiliations at the same time should probably be tied to different usernames / email addresses, otherwise there is no way to tell.

However, this discussion has a weak relation with this task. If you want to improve the current situation with affiliations, please create a new task in order to discuss the details properly.

In T53050#1182788, @Qgil wrote:

Currently multiple affiliations can be assigned to a user, but for different time periods (i.e. until January 2015 Mary was Independent, from February 2015 Mary is affiliated with WMDE).

As long as it can handle multiple affiliations intersecting, that's fine.

In T53050#1182788, @Qgil wrote:

Multiple affiliations at the same time should probably be tied to different usernames / email addresses, otherwise there is no way to tell.

That's no good, WMF contributions often have generic usernames/email addresses associated with them.

In T53050#1182788, @Qgil wrote:

However, this discussion has a weak relation with this task. If you want to improve the current situation with affiliations, please create a new task in order to discuss the details properly.

You can't really do any useful statistics involving user affiliations while this problem is unsolved, because any metric assuming that (for example) "all of @Krenair's contributions made since March last year are for WMF" is going to be simply invalid.

Let's continue the discussion about multiple affiliations in T95238: Handling multiple affiliations (at once; like work vs spare time) in tech community metrics

I think it can be declined. It hasn't progressed in more than two years, and it doesn't look like going anywhere.