Hello,
Please feel free to ignore this message if you are not a user of the
Analytics client servers
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Platform/Systems/Clients>
(otherwise known as stat servers).
We need to carry out a scheduled reboot of these four servers (named:
stat10[08-11) in order to pick up a new Linux kernel image. I propose to
carry out this work next Monday (September 2nd) at approximately 10:00
UTC. I expect the reboot to take no more than 10-15 minutes in total.
If you can avoid using the servers at this time, I would be grateful. If
this maintenance window presents a significant problem for you, please
do let me know and I will look to defer or re-schedule the reboot.
Kind regards,
Ben
--
*Ben Tullis*(he/him)
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
Just a quick note that we recently started reporting more granularly about
the user agents that visit Wikimedia projects (without any loss in privacy,
of course). All the nitty gritty details in phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342267>. Summary here:
Before: We were
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers-previous/#all-sites-by-…>
grouping too many small buckets into "Other", so we had a big "Other"
bucket:
[image: image.png]
To illustrate, let's pretend we have a less popular browser with three
different versions, being used at numbers just below our reporting
threshold:
* Dan's Browser v1 - 0.9%
* Dan's Browser v2 - 0.7%
* Dan's Browser v3 - 0.8%
We used to just roll all of that data up into "Other" - 2.4%. What we're
doing now is just including "Dan's Browser (Redacted) - 2.4%". So this has
the effect of increasing the reported traffic share of browsers like
Firefox or desktop OSes like Linux. The picture now looks like
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-os-and-br…>
:
[image: image.png]
We copied old data and made it accessible here (this is not being updated):
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers-previous
And we'll be updating the dashboards with new data, these remain at:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers
Do please take a look and let us know if you see anything weird. One last
detail that I'll pull out of that long phab thread for those of you who
read this far: we now have both "Other" and "Redacted". This might seem
confusing at first, so I'll explain here and we can discuss:
- *Other*: this is truly now just representing user agent details that
our User Agent parser has not been able to identify, so it really means
"Other" not just a big bucket we're stashing data into
- *Redacted*: this is the label we're using when we're rolling up
multiple pieces of data for privacy reasons. Essentially, user agents that
get hit *less than 10 times per minute* are rolled up into "Redacted".