Hey all,
I started reorganizing the analytics section of the wiki a while back and forgot to post an update. I've since:
- Created project-specific pages for our current work, especially the Reportcard and the processing cluster, Kraken.
- Reportcard: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Reportcard
- I moved the obsolete "2.0" documentation off the front page and into its own subsection. I also changed the URLs so they do not mislead by suggesting there is an API or a database involved. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Reportcard/2.0
- Added pointers to the 2012-13 budget planning that was going on.
- Added locations for sharing research papers and bookmarks. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to upload PDFs to the wiki, so that didn't happen.
Questions, comments, and suggestions welcome!
Cheers,
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David Schoonover
dsc(a)wikimedia.org
A beta of the new Reportcard is now up on labs:
http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/
There's still plenty of work to do, but we're excited to share this with everybody.
There's a lot more here than meets the eye -- the graphs are constructed with a toolkit in the GUI and able to be forked, edited, and shared (though that part isn't ready yet for the harsh light of public). In the next few weeks we'll be adding to both the dashboard and this framework with the goal of eventually democratizing the ability to visualize the various WM datasets.
Comments and feedback are, as always, very welcome!
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David Schoonover
dsc(a)wikimedia.org
This is a summary of a meeting today in which Diederik van Liere and
David Schoonover showed off a current prototype of the monthly "report
card".
http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/reportCard seems down so David showed off
the graphs at http://count.less.ly/ . You can try that.
There is an new, public analytics mailing list (which I am cc'ing):
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
Points you might want to know:
They'll be adding the ability to annotate specific points in the graphs.
You'll be able to share graphs by sharing URLS, or by making and
sharing pretty URLs using "slugs". Authorization work is on the roadmap
(that's a necessary predecessor, I think, of being able to create graphs
that include private WMF-only data). And we need to play with dygraph
to make it do bar graphs or otherwise distinguish targets from actual
logged numbers.
Erik Zachte, in creating his report card, was doing some data
post-processing that Andrew, David, and Diederik hadn't known about, and
they are now incorporating that into their data pipeline.
Goals:
* by April 1st, the next metrics meeting, this prototype will replicate
readers/pageviews. The team will make a serious attempt at getting
editor data up and running, and add the ability to add and signal benchmark.
* by May 1st, they'll add geography by editor & break out mobile pageviews.
For English Wikipedia, we only have editors numbers, since we don't have
a slave running internally to process the vast quantity of data
regarding pageviews. I believe improvements in our analytics of
pageview and editor data on en.wp depends on Fabian Kaelin.
Analytics is waiting for ops work involving database setting &
configuration for all wikis. Diederik will meet up with Ryan Lane about
this.
I may have gotten things wrong; Diederik and David, please correct me.
Thanks.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Welcome to the the inaugural Analytics Mailing list email.
Here all your analytics wishes comes true,
so proposals, ideas, crazy ideas, crazy crazy ideas are welcome here!
as long as we can count something it is welcome.
D