I have a delightful followup to this thread. User:KCVelaga and
User:Dev_Jadiya have volunteered to take on maintenance of our Superset
install, and we're in the process of handing over access rights and
getting them up to speed.
Users of this project can continue to use the
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/superset.wmcloud.org/ tag and
[email protected] for issues and coordination. Do please keep in
mind that volunteer maintainers will have other priorities in their
lives; I would not suggest building any large-scale or mission-critical
stacks on top of Superset without careful discussion with the new
maintainers.
Also, please keep in mind that the new maintainers will be working on
the platform itself, but not maintaining any particular dashboards;
those will remain forever the responsibility of whoever made them in the
first place.
Thank you, Dev and KC!
-Andrew
On 2/12/26 9:03 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
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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