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 staffor 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].
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169452 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416373
I have a delightful followup to this thread. User:KCVelaga and User:Dev_Jadiya have volunteered to take on maintenance of our Superset install, and we're in the process of handing over access rights and getting them up to speed.
Users of this project can continue to use the https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/superset.wmcloud.org/ tag and cloud@lists.wikimedia.org for issues and coordination. Do please keep in mind that volunteer maintainers will have other priorities in their lives; I would not suggest building any large-scale or mission-critical stacks on top of Superset without careful discussion with the new maintainers.
Also, please keep in mind that the new maintainers will be working on the platform itself, but not maintaining any particular dashboards; those will remain forever the responsibility of whoever made them in the first place.
Thank you, Dev and KC!
-Andrew
On 2/12/26 9:03 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
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 staffor 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].
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169452 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416373
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