Trying again, adding analytics@ (public e-mail list) On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also think we should start with exposing the 3 api's endpoints in a GUI, > which - as Dan says - we know respond to community interests. And then ask > the community for more input, that could mean improvements to the tool, new > endpoints or completely new ideas... > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm ok if people want to take an iterative approach, I just want to point >> out that the usage information is not very indicative of value at this >> point. The API is not widely used and the per-article endpoint is expected >> to be hit much much more than per-project or top simply because the queries >> are many orders of magnitude more granular. So we can't really judge >> importance from that comparison. >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> My question is: How are we going to define the requirements for the >>>>> tool? I was planning to get some community input on defining which stats >>>>> would help contributors the most. What do you think? >>>>> >>>> >>>> My opinion here is that we should just expose everything the pageview >>>> API is capable of. It's only 3 different end points and they were chosen >>>> based on what the community found useful. As we add more endpoints we can >>>> keep checking if visualization is important. But of course if others have >>>> other more specific plans, we can wait for those tools to be built and >>>> iterate. >>>> >>> >>> ​Building up on Dan's suggestion: I'd go with communicating and/or >>> discussing the following with the community: >>> >>> * the 3 different metrics we can offer a UI for >>> * what other metrics they find useful for their work. This will help us >>> collect information about what other kind of metrics we should offer as an >>> end-point if we decide to add to the end-points (pageview per article >>> by country has come up many times, for example) >>> * whether they consider the wish as satisfied if we offer a UI for the >>> 3 different metrics, and perhaps over time add more metrics to the UI >>> as they become available (not necessarily in 2016). >>> >>> Leila >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > *Marcel Ruiz Forns* > Analytics Developer > Wikimedia Foundation >
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