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
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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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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Thanks so much Marcel and Madhumita this is most excellent news! =)
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