Yuri/Stas: This thread is missing some background context info as to what the issues are, if you could forward it it will be great.
>Thanks, though using distinct User-Agent may be easier for analysis, >since those are stored as separate fields, and doing operations on >separate field would be much easier than extracting comments from query >field e.g. when doing Hive data processing. X-analytics is a separate field in our hive data, we like it when info intended for analytics is dropped there. Please see docs: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote: > I would highly recommend using X-Analytics header for this, and > establishing a "well known" key name(s). X-Analytics gets parsed into > key-value pairs (object field) by our varnish/hadoop infrastructure, > whereas the user agent is basically a semi-free form text string. Also, > user agent cannot be set for by any javascript client, so we will > constantly have to perform two types of analysis - those that came from the > "backend" and those that were made by the browser. > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:28 PM Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> > I'll try to throw in a #TOOL: comment where I can remember using SPARQL, >> > but I'll be bound to forget a few... >> >> Thanks, though using distinct User-Agent may be easier for analysis, >> since those are stored as separate fields, and doing operations on >> separate field would be much easier than extracting comments from query >> field e.g. when doing Hive data processing. >> >> -- >> Stas Malyshev >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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