The reverts table is useful for looking at global reverting patterns over time.  Right now, I'm trying to answer questions about the robustness of Wikipedia's vandal fighting system by looking at who picked up the slack when ClueBot went down for a month and what effect this had on the presence of vandalism in the Wiki.  I'd also like to review reverts and retention of new users since the E3 & Teahouse work once I get back into WMF gear.

I'd be happy to add this to a shared repo.  I'm planning to push them to https://bitbucket.org/halfak/wikimedia-utilities when I'm done with them.  I haven't used the git system you guys are working with yet, so I might need some setup if you want me to move it there.   In the meantime, I'm just trying to get things done with the few hours I have to devote to this work. 

-Aaron




On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey Aaron,

(removing E3 and adding wmfresearch)

can you recap the main use case for the revert tables generated by reverts.py? We've been thinking of moving them to the prod DB but now that we have SHA1 population completed in enwiki AND revert rates implemented in the metrics API I am curious about what you use this for. If we were to make this a permanent table in prod we should definitely have the script in a public repo as a starter.

Dario

On Mar 22, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Ori Livneh <ori@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> It's useful to have such things in a public repo so people can take a peek at your code if it goes crazy and suggest improvements :)
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> On Friday, March 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
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>> Hey folks,
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>> I was running a script to update the revert tables on db1047 with stat1 two days ago that had some bad disk access patterns. (FYI, don't use python shelve as an on-disk cache of a dict().) As soon as I saw the load come up, I killed the script. For any difficulty that occurred in the meantime, I'm very sorry. I've since re-written things to behave much better.
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>> I currently have two processes running on the machine:
>> sessions.py - Updating session table on db1047. Useful for measuring editor labor hours.
>> reverts.py - Updating revert tables on db1047. Fixed to not need a disk cache.
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>> Both of these processes are nice'd, so they should wait in line for CPU access behind any non-nice'd processes you have running. If the processes cause any trouble, please feel free to kill them or let me know and I'll kill them.
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>> For Science,
>> -Aaron
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