Thread:Extension talk:Campaigns/How to access data? (and why is it so complicated?)/reply

A third party user wouldn't (and I don't think could) send the data to a Wikimedia analytics slave. To be honest I doubt third parties will be interested in this very much, considering this functionality is already built in to Google Analytics and most other modern analytics vendors.

The reason the data goes in to a restricted database is that, while userid and username etc. are public information, other parts of what is collected by Schema:ServerSideAccountCreation are not.

Using the campaign value to tag users in the account creation log is a good idea, and we could add it in the future. However, we might need to think more about security and validation of campaign names at that point. For instance: offsite trolling group or vandal inserts "campaign=OffensiveRacialSlur" in to a commonly used link, and account get tagged as "OffensiveRacialSlur". Right now if someone puts garbage or trolling in to a campaign name, it doesn't matter because the data has to be made public by hand. One way we could combat this is to publish aggregate campaign data only, perhaps in a Special page or the like, instead of tagging individual accounts.