Summary:
The Cloud Services implementation of Superset (https://superset.wmcloud.org) is currently unsupported by WMF staff. We would
welcome a volunteer stepping up to maintain it, but without a
new home the service will be shut down at the end of March.
If you would like to take on ownership of this service,
please reach out to WMCS staff or comment
on the phabricator task[1]. The day-to-day
maintenance load is minimal, but someone will need to keep track
up updates, security concerns and a potential future of defense
against AI scraping.
Background:
There has always been demand from researchers and
volunteers to run one-off queries against Wikimedia datasets. Quarry.wmcloud.org was built and launched by the WMF more than 10
years ago. Originally a one-person skunkworks project, it
quickly caught on in popularity as one of the most trafficked
services run by Wikimedia Cloud Services.
A few years ago, we launched superset.wmcloud.org[0] as
an intended Quarry replacement. We soon learned that despite
being a less polished, home-made tool, Quarry provides many
features that Superset does not, and most users resisted migration
away from it. Superset has only a handful of active users.
At this point, Superset is essentially unsupported by WMF staff. As
part of ongoing efforts to improve our support for Toolforge and other more popular services we will be
either shutting it off or transferring ownership of Superset in a few weeks[1].