Analytics October 2014

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s3 replica on analytics-store suffering lag of >12 hours
by Christian Aistleitner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi, just a quick heads up that the s3 replication lag on analytics-store.eqiad.wmnet (i.e.: dbstore1002) is currently at 15 hours and still increasing. I filed RT ticket 8694: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8694 Best regards, Christian P.S.: Since we're seeing slave lag issues daily during the last few days, they are all caused by different unrelated issues. So it seems to me that it is an unfortunate coincidence not a general issue. -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Records of article access
by Pine W 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi again Analytics, I was under the impression that no records are kept of which IPs access which articles on Wikipedia when no edits are made, but it appears that such records are in fact kept [1]. Is this proper? This practice appears to be permissible under the Privacy Policy which states that "We use IP addresses for research and analytics; to better personalize content, notices, and settings for you; to fight spam, identity theft, malware, and other kinds of abuse; and to provide better mobile and other applications." It is possible that this information is relevant for determining the number of unique visitors that Wikipedia gets and that this information is always properly filtered before it gets to the Signpost. However, given recent discussions which I thought said that Wikipedia was not instrumented to track unique visitors, I am surprised to learn that this already seems to be happening and that the situation has been this way for some time, so I would appreciate clarification. I want to emphasize that this question is about clarifying the practice of tracking likely unique visitors by IP. This question is not intended to start flame wars, get people into trouble, or limit the Signpost's access to properly filtered information if there has been a determination that WMF's retention of the raw data is appropriate. There might be appropriate secondary questions about making sure that access to the raw IP access data is carefully contained and secured. Thank you very much, Pine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASerendipodous&diff=6…

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Geowiki no longer showing up-to-date numbers
by Christian Aistleitner 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi, just a quick heads up that due to database issues, geowiki currently cannot update daily with new data. So pages with daily active editor counts like http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors_total http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_editor_counts http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/frwiki_editor_counts http://gp.wmflabs.org/graphs/eowiki_editor_counts [...] and the private per country breakdowns at https://stats.wikimedia.org/geowiki-private/ will not see updates until the issue is resolved. Older data is not affected by the issue. So data up to May 1st is good to use (with the usual geowiki caveats). Best regards, Christian P.S.: The root issue is not severe, and I guess it can be fixed in the next couple of days. -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Gruendbergstrasze 65a Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at 4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 / 26 95 63 Fax: +43 732 / 26 95 63 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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s1 replica on analytics-store suffering lag of >12 hours
by Christian Aistleitner 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi, just a quick heads up that the s1 replication lag on analytics-store.eqiad.wmnet (i.e.: dbstore1002) is currently at 19 hours and still increasing. I filed RT ticket 8678: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8678 Best regards, Christian -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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EventLogging replicas suffering lag of >12 hours
by Christian Aistleitner 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi, just a quick heads up that the replication lag on both * analytics-store.eqiad.wmnet (i.e.: dbstore1002), and * s1-analytics-slave (i.e.: db1047) is currently at 41 hours and quickly increasing. I filed RT ticket 8636: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8636 Best regards, Christian -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Traffic device breakdown
by Jon Robson 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

I was going through our backlog again today, and I noticed a bug about supporting editing on Windows Phones with IE9 [1] Yet again, I wondered 'how many of our users are using IE9' as I wondered if because of this lack of support we are losing out on lots of potential editors. What's the easiest way to get this information now? Is it available? [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55599

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Editor interaction data sets and visualizations
by Pine W 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, As you may have heard, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti… is an individual engagement grant proposal. I am working on this proposal with volunteer assistance and advice from Aaron Halfaker (WMF), Haitham Shammaa (WMF), and Fabian Flöck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology>). We are still developing this proposal, and plan to have it finalized in the next few days. We would greatly appreciate your comments on whether you support or oppose the general concept of this project, and any suggestions about how to refine the proposal. Additionally, we would like to hear from you about which sets of editor interaction data, and what visualizations of editor interaction data, would be most relevant to your interests. We intend to prioritize our outputs with your comments in mind. Please comment on the proposal talk page. Questions and feedback, both positive and critical, are helpful to us as the proposers, and also help the Individual Engagement Grants Committee [1] to assess the proposal. Regards, Pine [1] I am a member of the Individual Engagement Grants Committee. I am recusing from reviewing proposals in this funding round.

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Re: [Analytics] [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Design Research in Product Development: Oct 22
by Pine W 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Thanks Rachel. I'm forwarding this invite to other lists. Pine On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Pine, > > The streaming youtube link is public. Feel free to distribute it however > you like. People can also ask questions on the google+ page during the talk > if they don't have access to IRC. I will not be monitoring it quite as > closely, but I still will check it during the talk. > > As you probably already know, the youtube video will also be public after > the talk so anyone can watch or rewatch the talk at any point after it is > over as well. > > I hope this answers your question, > > Rachel > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rachel, >> >> Would it be appropriate to invite people who are outside of the Wikimedia >> universe to watch on Youtube and participate on IRC? This talk in >> particular may interest outsiders who are designers, PMs, researchers, or >> coders. >> >> Pine >> On Oct 7, 2014 3:40 PM, "Rachel Farrand" <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Please join us for the following tech talk: >>> >>> *Tech Talk**:* Design Research in Product Development >>> *Presenter:* Abbey Ripstra, Design & Usability Research Analyst on The UX >>> team at the Wikimedia Foundation >>> *Date:* October 22 >>> *Time:* 1900 UTC >>> < >>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Desig… >>> > >>> Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYMTzzosUIw> >>> *IRC channel for questions:* #wikimedia-office >>> Google+ page >>> < >>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/caiiagf75bvddr09… >>> >, >>> another >>> place for questions >>> >>> Talk description: The value of design research in product development is >>> being recognized more frequently these days. This talk will quickly >>> describe the innovation process, and how, when and why design research >>> fits >>> into the different parts of the innovation process. For most of the talk, >>> Abbey will focus in on the product development part of innovation and >>> describe how, when and why to best utilize the various methodologies of >>> design research toward building intuitive, easy to use products that meet >>> the needs of users. Abbey will also talk about, and want to collaborate >>> on, >>> the best ways to integrate design research, specifically, into product >>> development at Wikimedia Foundation. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >

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Analytics dev points
by Pine W 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I apologize if this is an elementary question, but what are points used to quantify when doing analytics development and how are points assigned? Pine

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Welcome Marcel Ruiz Forns to the Analytics Development team
by Toby Negrin 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Hi Everyone, I'd like to welcome Marcel to the Analytics team. We're super excited to have someone with Marcel's skills and experience on the team. In his own words: Marcel is a Spanish computer science engineer, currently living in Brazil. He has worked lately with recommender systems and e-commerce analytics at Chaordic in Brazil. Before that, he worked with natural language processing at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and also with serious games development at the Poly-technical University of Catalonia (UPC), the same place he studied his B.S. He'll be working on Wikimetrics initially, implementing some feature requests for Grantmaking. Please join me in welcoming Marcel! He'll be remote, but he's in San Francisco at the moment, so please stop by Chambers to say hello if you are in the office. -Toby

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