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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Jonathan T. Morgan
Community Research Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
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jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org