The Wikimedia Foundation is looking to hire a full-time Research Analyst to join our product research and analytics team:
http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTqrXfwr&s=wiki-research-l
This opening is focused on research on editor engagement features and experiments developed by the Foundation's product team.
Get in touch off-list if you have any questions on this opening (you can also contact Heather and Ion from our recruitment team, cc'ed).
Dario
Hi!
Wednesday's sprint demo concluded the fourth sprint of the "Self-Serve
Observational Analytics" Release. The goal of this release is to schedule
features that will empower end-users to interact independently with the
Analytics toolset.
Apologies for cross-posting; ideally you should receive this on the
Analytics Mailinglist so we can have one focal point for conversation. If
you are not on the Analytics list then please subscribe at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
## Defects & Features completed (Ready for Showcase/Shipping/Done) during
Sprint ending 2013-05-01 ##
#388 F - Admin defines new static cohort by uploading CSV (5) Ready for
Showcase requested by E3 (Dario)
#634 F - Reportcard for May Metrics Meeting (N/E) Ready for Showcase
requested by ED (Erik M.)
#513 I - Migrate UserMetrics API to Gerrit (N/E) Ready for Showcase
requested by E3 (Dario)
#570 I - Local development environment for engineers to debug User Metrics
(8) Ready for Showcase requested by E3 (Dario)
## Planned for Showcase on 2013-05-08 ##
#622 I - Setup multicast relay to gadolinium (N/E)
#538 F - Performance improvement udp-filter (N/E)
## Current Sprint (ending 2013-05-08) ##
Stories in progress from last sprint:
#148 I - Network ACL (N/E) BLOCKED requested by Ops/Mark
#131 I - Puppetize Kafka 0.7 requested by Analytics & Ops
#134 I - Puppetize Hadoop requested by Analytics & Ops
#353 D - Wikistats - mobile country report et al. requested by Queued for
Dev Community
#388 F - Admin defines new static cohort by uploading CSV
#570 I - Local dev env for User Metrics
New stories:
#622 I - Setup multicast relay to gadolinium (N/E)
#538 F - Performance improvement udp-filter (N/E)
(Number in parentheses) = estimate of complexity
N/E = not estimated;
F = Feature
D = Defect
I = Infrastructure Task
S = Spike
Any mingle card can be accessed using the base url
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/XYZ where XYZ is
the Mingle card id.
If you have any questions, comments or feedback: please let us know!
Best,
Diederik
Hi, after a discussion with Jon, we decided that the usage of X-Device for
CentralNotice platform-specific banners is a dead end. It has the following
problems:
* X-Device was created for regulating frontend caching allowing some
device/browser specific CSS. It was not intended for anything else.
* It is not grouped by platform. Or browser type. It is grouped by
cacheable entities.
* X-Device usage is dictated by performance. So if CN needs to distinguish
between iPhone 4 and 5, for example, the answer will be "no can do", we
can't increase cache fragmentation for the sake of banners.
* We are working on decreasing the number of X-Devices: there's no
guarantee that we will not merge 'android' into 'webkit' one day.
* Android-based browsers can correspond to 'android', 'webkit', 'operamini'
and 'operamobile' X-Device strings, the latter 3 being shared with several
other platforms. We in general need to target all Android users with our
app banners, not users of a specific Android browser.
Thus, we decided to change it.
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61989/ removes wgMobileDeviceName
support from MobileFrontend.
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/61988/ adds basic detection code to
CentralNotice.
Ideally, every mobile banner could specify a user-agent regex and a special
ResourceLoader module collect the regexes from all available banners.
fyi
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Special Tech Talk: Big Data Tools
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:19:03 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This week we have a Tech Talk special edition:
Big Data Tools
by David Schoonover
May 1, 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT
Overview of the big data tools we have available at the Wikimedia
Foundation. We'll be writing real queries to explore real data from the
mobile site!
More details and timezones at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-05-01
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Howdy all,
Quick reminder that my brownbag on our big data work is starting in a few
minutes in the 6th floor collab space!
Cheers,
--
David Schoonover
dsc(a)wikimedia.org