>
> *Schema:Edit contains no useful information that isn't already in the
> database apart from which button people use to thank each other,*


I assume you mean Schema:Echo? :)

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>
wrote:

> [Reviving old thread]
>
> I was looking at our EventLogging data today, and discovered that
> Schema:Edit contains no useful information that isn't already in the
> database apart from which button people use to thank each other, and if we
> really care about that we can measure it separately without producing nine
> gigs of unused data.
>
> Feel free to delete the data associated with Schema:Echo (but not
> Schema:EchoInteraction! We do use that one) with extreme prejudice. I've
> also written a config patch to stop us from producing these events (
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/274345/ ) which I will deploy in the
> SWAT on Thursday.
>
> I also found that a long-standing issue with duplicate events in
> Schema:EchoInteraction wasn't fixed yet, so I wrote a patch for that too:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/274342
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nuria!
>>
>> Speaking for *my own particular scenario*, that solution sounds like it
>> will be fine, since I don't plan on immediately performing research with
>> these data.
>>
>> But it's obviously still the Collab team's call here--they likely have
>> needs I know nothing about. Cc'ing Joe Matazzoni in case he's not following
>> this already...
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> >We could blacklist this schema from the mysql database, and still keep
>>> producing it.  It would be available in Hadoop either way.
>>>
>>> Right but I would also like to drop the table if it is not being used,
>>> if data is not going to be looked at soonish there is no point in storing
>>> as it will likely be deleted before it gets looked at.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nuria
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We could blacklist this schema from the mysql database, and still keep
>>>> producing it.  It would be available in Hadoop either way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:22, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Nuria,
>>>>
>>>> FWIW: Although I'm not using this right now, but I could see it being
>>>> useful for understanding the impact of new notification updates that are
>>>> coming down the pike.[1][2]
>>>>
>>>> What are the costs involved in keeping this schema up?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> J
>>>>
>>>> 1.
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Cross-wiki_notifications_user_research
>>>> 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116741
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Roan:
>>>>>
>>>>> The data for Echo schema(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:Echo)
>>>>> is quite large and we are not sure is even used.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you confirm either way? If it is no longer used we will stop
>>>>> collecting it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nuria
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