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Changes like this are normally discussed and voted on by the community, right? Could someone link to the discussion where this decision was made, so we can better understand it?

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It was discussed on a mailing list at some point.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-March/0...

> I'd really rather this be either something that's totally not understandable by the user (e.g. ?saf=1), or something that is clearly understandable (e.g. ?appshareafact=1).

I guess they decided to go with "totally not understandable."

Also - is this mailing list something that anyone can participate in, or only wikimedia office staff?

There's a form for subscribing to the mailing list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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