Analytics did Limn, Kraken, and Report Card work in August, described in
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/04/engineering-august-2012-report/ .
For context, you might also like to review their roadmap, goals, and
metrics definitions:
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/2012-2013_Roadmap
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Analytics
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Metric_definitions
In August and early September, Andrew Otto and Dave Schoonover concluded
their research into distributed logging systems to replace udp2log for
Kraken,: check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Kraken/Logging_Solutions_Overview .
"The options discussed here will be used as the main data firehose into
the Analytics Kraken Cluster. This is an overview meant to summarize the
research that the Analytics team has done, and will be used to start a
discussion with ops."
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation