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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Dan Andreescu
dandreescu@wikimedia.org
wrote:
> Correction! I did nothing. This was all the awesome work of Marcel and
> Madhumita (our new team member). In addition to what Johnathan mentioned
> there are two other things:
>
> 1. Madhumita fixed the "Validate Again" functionality on the Cohorts
> screen. This lets you re-validate in case some of your users registrations
> have not replicated to the labs databases when you add the cohort. The
> Validate Again button shows up automatically if you have one or more
> invalid users in your cohort. If the invalid users are invalid for known
> reasons, there's no benefit to using the feature.
> 2. Marcel fixed problems with unicode user names in JSON output and
> re-deployed this feature (it had been rolled back in the past for causing
> other problems).
>
> Great work all.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Pine W
wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Woohoo! We were discussing this at WMCON. I'll forward this. Thanks.
>>
>> Pine
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Morgan
jmorgan@wikimedia.org
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Marcel, Dan and the Analytics team have completed a new feature for
>>> Wikimetrics, which just went live.
>>>
>>> Now, if you experience a report failure, instead of just seeing a
>>> message that says "FAILURE", you will see a button that you can click to
>>> re-run the report without leaving the page.
>>>
>>> While not every error that leads to a failed report will be fixed by
>>> this feature, it *should* make it easier to recover from the database
>>> connectivity issue that many Wikimetrics users experienced earlier this
>>> year (and which some folks may still be experiencing intermittently). This
>>> issue resulted in a lot of wasted effort and frustration, since users had
>>> no choice but to start the report process all over again after each failure.
>>>
>>> Database connectivity for Wikimetrics has improved since then--we only
>>> had 31 failed reports in April, down from 750 in January--but hopefully
>>> this new feature helps ameliorate the frustration of these outages, when
>>> they do occur.
>>>
>>> Next up for Wikimetrics: allow users set shared parameters for multiple
>>> metrics reports (like start and end date) once, rather than having to do it
>>> for each metric individually. (Phabricator task
>>>
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74117)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
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>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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>>>
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