On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 11/13/2013 07:14 PM, Arthur Richards wrote:
So why are those backend scripts stupid? Because
they run every hour and
>> recalculate _all_ the values for every single graph. For example, even
>> though total unique editors for June 2013 will never change, they are
>> still recalculated every hour.
>>
>
Is it really true that they will never change? I think many of the
metrics are written such that when a page is deleted, it reduces edits in
the past. So if I delete a page today (November 2013) that happened to be
edited in June 2013, that affects the June 2013 edit counts.
That isn't intuitive anyway, but if there's a change in this regard, it
needs to be communicated.
Yeah, we refer to that as deletion drift. Dario is heading an effort to
make these metrics more standard and intuitive (
).
We'll have to see what we need for these dashboards and if the new
definitions would help.