Summary:
The Cloud Services implementation of Superset
(https://superset.wmcloud.org) is currently unsupported by WMF staff. We
would welcome a volunteer stepping up to maintain it, but without a new
home the service will be shut down at the end of March.
If you would like to take on ownership of this service, please reach out
to WMCS staffor comment on the phabricator task[1]. The day-to-day
maintenance load is minimal, but someone will need to keep track up
updates, security concerns and a potential future of defense against AI
scraping.
Background:
There has always been demand from researchers and volunteers to run
one-off queries against Wikimedia datasets. Quarry.wmcloud.org was built
and launched by the WMF more than 10 years ago. Originally a one-person
skunkworks project, it quickly caught on in popularity as one of the
most trafficked services run by Wikimedia Cloud Services.
A few years ago, we launched superset.wmcloud.org[0] as an intended
Quarry replacement. We soon learned that despite being a less polished,
home-made tool, Quarry provides many features that Superset does not,
and most users resisted migration away from it. Superset has only a
handful of active users.
At this point, Superset is essentially unsupported by WMF staff. As part
of ongoing efforts to improve our support for Toolforge and other more
popular services we will be either shutting it off or transferring
ownership of Superset in a few weeks[1].
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169452
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416373
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