Wow! This is great work. Refactoring backend infrastructure usually isn't
fun* and often is under-appreciated but it usually makes everything
better—so thanks to all involved for making it happen!


> We’re already working on adding the ability to look at several search
> metrics by language and project (T150410)


You know that's my favorite! Woo hoo!

—Trey

* I think maybe Erik likes it, though. :p


Trey Jones
Software Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Mikhail Popov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Howdy!
>
> Just wanted to let y’all know about some updates to Discovery
> Dashboards[1]:
>
> - All dashboards have been updated to use a new collection of datasets[2]
> - The Wikipedia.org Portal dashboard[4] now tracks:
>     - Clicks on sister project links (T152617)
>     - Clicks on mobile app links (T154634)
> - The WDQS dashboard[3] now tracks LDF endpoint usage (T153936)
>
> So that’s the front-end news. On the back-end:
>
> - We’ve refactored the entire metric-calculation codebase[5] to use
> Analytics’ Reportupdater infrastructure[6] (T150915)
> - That codebase is now thoroughly documented[7]
> - We’ve introduced additional rules for detecting automata to several
> scripts that calculate traffic and usage metrics
> - We’ve erased and backfilled all the metrics from 2017-01-01 using all
> the new definitions and updated UDFs
>     - So if you see drastic changes to a metric starting on 1st January
> 2017, that’s why :)
>     - Accordingly, all the graphs have been annotated with this info
> - We are no longer undercounting full-text and geo search API usage (see
> [8], hence the jump on 2017-01-01)
> - Adding new metrics and backfilling data is now way easier
>     - We’re already working on adding the ability to look at several
> search metrics by language and project (T150410)
>     - We can even add predictive models of metrics AS metrics for the
> codebase to calculate (T112170, [9])
>
> A huge thanks to Deb for her support and patience through this project,
> and huge thanks to Chelsy for her thorough code review of and help with
> [10].
>
> Cheers,
> Mikhail on behalf of Discovery’s Analysis team
>
> [1]: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/
> [2]: https://datasets.wikimedia.org/aggregate-datasets/discovery/
> [3]: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/wdqs/
> [4]: https://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/
> [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/WDGO/
> [6]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Reportupdater
> [7]: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-discovery-golden/
> blob/master/README.md
> [8]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315503/
> [9]: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-discovery-golden/
> blob/master/README.md#adding-new-forecasting-modules
> [10]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/325870/
>
> --
> Mikhail Popov // Count Logula
> Discovery, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> PGP Public Key: https://people.wikimedia.org/~bearloga/public.asc
> Fingerprint: B362 76D4 FEBE F715 5F40  0C9C 4BC8 A265 E573 3216
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> discovery mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
>
>
_______________________________________________
discovery mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery

Reply via email to