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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 07/04/2013 07:46 AM, Michael Wilkes wrote:
> Hi Sumana,
>
> This is great information on gadget "enablement" but you're right, an
> enabled preference does not equate to usage per se. There must be some way
> to get this information out of the logfiles. I'm not familiar enough with
> how gadget usage can be quantified, but I'm sure that it should be possible.
>
> I'm in the process of getting involved deeper in the analytics team as a
> volunteer ever since I found out about Kraken at the Amsterdam Hackathon.
> To this end I've come up with some questions that I'd like to be able to
> ask of the data and sent this to Diederik and Erik as a basis for providing
> some insights that I think will be valuable. When I am further along in
> exploring the data and learning the tools, I'll be happy to help take a
> look at gadget and bot "signs of life" that can be found in the logfiles.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --Michael
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
>> wrote:
>
>> Summary: we have some new stats regarding gadget usage across WMF sites,
>> but I'd like more analysis of gadget & bot usage.
>>
>>
>> Oliver Keyes has some code and results up at
>>
https://github.com/Ironholds/MetaAnalysis/tree/master/GadgetUsage to
>> analyze "data around gadgets being used on various wikimedia projects":
>>
>> "GadgetUsage.r is the generation script. It is dependent on (a) access
>> to the analytics slaves and (b) the list of databases
>>
>> "gadget_data.tsv is the raw data, consisting of an aggregate number of
>> users for each preference on each wiki, with preference, wiki and wiki
>> type (source, wiki, versity, etc) defined.
>>
>> "gadgets_by_wikis.tsv is a rework of the data to look at what gadgets
>> are used on multiple wikis, and how many wikis that is. It also includes
>> an aggregate of the number of users across those wikis using the gadget.
>>
>> "wikis_by_gadgets.tsv is a rework that looks at the number of distinct
>> gadgets on each individual wiki. Unsuprisingly there's a power law."
>>
>> This helps a lot with addressing one of the analytics "dreams" from
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Dreams - "What proportion of
>> logged-in editors have activated any gadgets at all? What are the most
>> popular gadgets?" However, Oliver's data "is based on preference data -
>> it may or may not include data for those gadgets set as defaults." So
>> if someone could improve this to ensure that we appropriately count
>> gadget usage for gadgets that default to on, that would be very helpful.
>>
>> My team would also like to know:
>> * who maintains the most popular gadgets? (so we can invite them to
>> hackathons, help get them training, get those gadgets localised and
>> ported to other wikis, and so on)
>> * when were the gadgets last updated? (so we can identify stale ones
>> that enthusiastic volunteers could take over maintaining)
>> * similar stats regarding bot usage -- what bots are making the most
>> edits, or edits that in aggregate change the most bytes? who owns those
>> bots? what wikis are they active on? (so we can help maintainers better,
>> ensure they hear about API breaking changes, etc., and develop a bot
>> inventory/directory to make it easier for other wikis' users to start
>> using useful bots)
>>
>> If there's anyone interested in taking this on, either inside or outside
>> WMF's Analytics team, that would be great. Otherwise I anticipate that
>> Engineering Community Team will take it on sometime in the
>> October-December 2013 period.
>>
>> --
>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Engineering Community Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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