Woohoo! We were discussing this at WMCON. I'll forward this. Thanks. Pine
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Marcel, Dan and the Analytics team have completed a new feature for > Wikimetrics, which just went live. > > Now, if you experience a report failure, instead of just seeing a message > that says "FAILURE", you will see a button that you can click to re-run the > report without leaving the page. > > While not every error that leads to a failed report will be fixed by this > feature, it *should* make it easier to recover from the database > connectivity issue that many Wikimetrics users experienced earlier this > year (and which some folks may still be experiencing intermittently). This > issue resulted in a lot of wasted effort and frustration, since users had > no choice but to start the report process all over again after each failure. > > Database connectivity for Wikimetrics has improved since then--we only had > 31 failed reports in April, down from 750 in January--but hopefully this > new feature helps ameliorate the frustration of these outages, when they do > occur. > > Next up for Wikimetrics: allow users set shared parameters for multiple > metrics reports (like start and end date) once, rather than having to do it > for each metric individually. (Phabricator task > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74117>) > > Best, > Jonathan > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Community Research Lead > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > jmor...@wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > Wikimetrics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics > >
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