We're organizing a half-day workshop for engineers, analysts, PMs and other parties
interested in learning how to use EventLogging.
EventLogging [1] is a MediaWiki extension developed by the E3 team that allows the
collection of data on how users interact with our site. It's been largely adopted in
Product/Mobile/Feature engineering to run A/B tests and to evaluate experimental features
but can be used more generally to identify usability problems and to collect data to
inform feature design.
Whether you are already planning to use EventLogging for an existing project or you are
just curious to learn how it works, the session will cover a typical workflow:
1) turning an idea into a data model
2) instrumenting MediaWiki to log events
3) accessing and QA'ing log data
4) performing simple log data analysis
The workshop [2] will be hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation (Collab space, 6th floor) on
March 7 between 1.30pm-5pm. The whole E3 engineer line-up will be in the office to provide
hands-on demos and tutorials. If you are interested in attending, please sign up on the
workshop page. The session will be recorded but we're not currently planning to stream
it.
Dario
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging/Workshop