Analytics October 2015

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Event Logging incident
by Dan Andreescu 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

The consumer that writes Event Logging events into the SQL database was down yesterday for about 9 hours. We restarted it and it consumed the data it missed, and inserted it into the database. The incident report is here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20151015-EventLo… We don't yet know if any data was lost, I'm going to run some queries now on a few schemas and I'll update the incident report. If you had reports run on October 14th, between 06:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC, you should re-run them.

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Wikipedia Page View Stats
by Doug Stone 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

The current site stats.grok.se is frequently down and very unstable. Are there any plans to set in motion an ongoing stable version that isn't maintained solely by a single individual. The information in it is highly relevant to predictive analytics and of considerable use. Doug Stone

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Code of Conduct and publication of private non-harassing communication
by Matthew Flaschen 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Quim has proposed an alternative wording for the text about republication of private communication. You can comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#New_proposal.2C_w… or to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . Thanks as always, Matt Flaschen

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noccokie tag on X-analytics
by Nuria Ruiz 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Team: As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on the X-analytics header. If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies whatsoever it will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could correspond to a fresh browser session, a user browsing with cookies disabled or, most likely, a bot request as most bots will not accept cookies. We *might* be able to use this setting as a cheap proxy to quantify bot traffic. Documentation about this change can be found here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics Thanks, Nuria

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Canonical location for metrics documentation
by Neil P. Quinn 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

We currently have metrics documentation in two different places: 1. Different pages in the Research namespace on Meta (many but not all of them in Category:Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metrics>). 2. mediawiki:Analytics/Metrics <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions> To avoid duplication, which of these should be the canonical location? I lean towards Meta, since it's not just MediaWiki developers who'll be interested. As a follow-up question, if you think it should be Meta as well, what should be the primary gateway to this documentation? Category:Metrics? An updated version of Research:Metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Metrics>? Research:Metrics standardization <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions#Active_editor>? -- Neil P. Quinn <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neil_P._Quinn-WMF>, product analyst Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015
by Tilman Bayer 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Forwarding regarding the Analytics team's quarterly review documentation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:15 PM Subject: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation's quarterly reviews of teams' work in the past quarter (July-September, Q1 of the 2015-16 fiscal year) took place last week. Minutes and slides for those meetings are now available: Community Engagement: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Discovery: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Reading and Advancement (with Fundraising Tech): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Editing (comprising the Collaboration, Language Engineering, Multimedia, Parsing, and VisualEditor teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Infrastructure (comprising the Analytics, Release Engineering, Services, TechOps, and Labs teams) and CTO (comprising the Design Research, Research & Data, Performance, and Security teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Legal, Talent & Culture (HR), Communications, Finance & Administration & Office IT, and Team Practices: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… As usual, much of this information will also be available in consolidated form as part of the general WMF quarterly report for Q1, which is planned to be published on October 19. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… for some general background about the Foundation's quarterly review process. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Article Traffic Statistics down again
by Kevin Alvear 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hi my name is SeminoleNation and I have been wondering if Wikipedia plans on implementing a stable way of looking at article traffic statistics. The current http://stats.grok.se/link is very unstable and frequently crashes and will lose information of multiple days at a time. Thank you

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Relevant Content Availability
by Abdel Samad, Rawia 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Hello, I work for a consulting firm called Strategy&. We have been engaged by Facebook on behalf of Internet.org to conduct a study on assessing the state of connectivity globally. One key area of focus is the availability of relevant online content. We are using a the availability of encyclopedic knowledge in one's primary language as a proxy for relevant content. We define this as 100K+ Wikipedia articles in one's primary language. We have a few questions related to this analysis prior to publishing it: * We are currently using the article count by language based on Wikimedia's foundation public link: Source: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias. Is this a reliable source for article count - does it include stubs? * Is it possible to get historic data for article count. It would be great to monitor the evolution of the metric we have defined over time? * What are the biggest drivers you've seen for step change in the number of articles (e.g., number of active admins, machine translation, etc.) * We had to map Wikipedia language codes to ISO 639-3 language codes in Ethnologue (source we are using for primary language data). The 2 language code for a wikipedia language in the "List of Wikipedias" sometimes matches but not always the ISO 639-1 code. Is there an easy way to do the mapping? Many Thanks, Rawia [Description: Strategy& Logo] Formerly Booz & Company Rawia Abdel Samad Direct: +9611985655 | Mobile: +97455153807 Email: Rawia.AbdelSamad(a)strategyand.pwc.com<mailto:Rawia.AbdelSamad@strategyand.pwc.com> www.strategyand.com

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Re: [Analytics] Canonical location for metrics documentation
by reguyla＠gmail.com 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

I believe its possible to create a template that would make the page be excluded in searches. I would need to check on that though. If not, then I would suggest such a capability would be a useful improvement and a phabricator request should be opened for it. But I would argue against deleting most things without some discussion. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device ------ Original message------From: LegoktmDate: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 12:59 PMTo: analytics@lists.wikimedia.org;Subject:Re: [Analytics] Canonical location for metrics documentation On 10/14/2015 06:34 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote:> We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got> delete permissions so we can actually clean.Please don't delete old content, mark it as {{historical}} or{{outdated}} and archive it instead.-- Legoktm_______________________________________________Analytics mailing listAnalytics@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Code of conduct consensus discussions update
by Matthew Flaschen 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

Full consensus was not reached on "Follow-up consensus discussion on intro, "Principles", "Expected behavior" and "Unacceptable behavior" sections" (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr…). Instead, there are a few discussions about how to move forward (I already sent the first two to the list, so consider those a reminder): * Whether to consider most of the text from the last discussion done, but improve the controversial text (certain sentences/paragraphs drew the vast majority of the objections): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr… * Whether to move out the "Expected behavior" to a separate non-binding guidelines page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr… * Whether to rearrange the pages used in the discussion process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr… * Whether to replace the end of the "Unacceptable behavior" section ("Our open source community acknowledges" etc.") with two sentences (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dr…). Thanks, Matt Flaschen

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