With the number of searches done on the site, that seems like an aberration that a each Sunday is a more accurate search day!?! Analytical gremlins of data capture, or not even bots work Sundays?
(Links: the dashboards live at http://discovery.wmflabs.org/ and an
example of automata filtering can be seen at
http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_rate !)
That is, 2% and 5% lower? You're looking at percentages so where the
lines vary between checkbox options it'll be different proportions.
Unless there's a graph I'm missing :D
On 4 January 2016 at 13:45, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is awesome. Roughly, by eye, it looks like automata are about 2% of ZRR
> overall and 5% of ZRR for fulltext search, which was around 15% before the
> holidays (and lower over the holidays—during The Time of Unreliable User
> Behavior).
>
> Is there a write up for this project? I know it had to be a ton of work, and
> I'm curious about the details (possibly more so than most).
>
> Do you think you got most of them? Or was the result high-precision but not
> exhaustive?
>
> Thanks for working on this!
>
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> After several weeks of work to switch all the scripts over and
>> backfill, all the Discovery dashboards now have the ability to filter
>> crawlers and automated software out from graphs where that is
>> relevant. You should notice a simple checkbox on, for example, the
>> Zero Results Rate data or Wikidata Query Service traffic.
>>
>> While a bit of backfilling is still waiting on the servers syncing up,
>> this work is essentially complete, and provides another way to look at
>> data on how people are using search (and who those people are). It was
>> a heck of a lot of work, by both myself and Mikhail, but it's
>> hopefully valuable :).
>>
>> For Discovery Analytics,
>>
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