On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Also, where are you replicating from? Only there are kind of a lot of
> tables here I don't recognise.
>
>From each shard using the same replication streams as the
sX-analytics-slaves use.
Which tables?
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Okay, so, have tested (to a limited degree. The work I'm doing that
> involves the dbs involves eventlogging, so this is mostly me making up
> excuses to run queries). Thoughts:
>
> *We should probably put in some kind of restrictions around
Says the guy with a HCI doctorate. Paging doctors Dunning and Krueger :P.
The crux of my argument, though, is that I'm uncomfortable with us saying
"yes, let's build/standardise on a tool for qualitative analysis" when
we're actively recruiting for several qualitative analysts: it's unfair for
us
Also, where are you replicating from? Only there are kind of a lot of
tables here I don't recognise.
On 29 April 2014 19:44, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Okay, so, have tested (to a limited degree. The work I'm doing that
> involves the dbs involves eventlogging, so this is mostly me making up
> excus
Okay, so, have tested (to a limited degree. The work I'm doing that
involves the dbs involves eventlogging, so this is mostly me making up
excuses to run queries). Thoughts:
*We should probably put in some kind of restrictions around what we care
about. For example, I see the tables relating to th
One word: YAY!
Thank you so much for this, Sean :D
On 29 April 2014 17:13, Sean Pringle wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
> dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Sean, consolation prizes are understated, this is terrific.
>>
>> I just noticed that centralauth is n
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Sean, consolation prizes are understated, this is terrific.
>
> I just noticed that centralauth is not included, after EventLogging data
> this is the most useful database to have replicated on the big one bo
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
>
> Geneally speaking my advice to the multimedia team would be "don't go near
> surveys". I've done a lot of them in the last 3 years, and the one thing
> I've learned is that surveys are very, very difficult to get right. Another
> thing I've
Sean, consolation prizes are understated, this is terrific.
I just noticed that centralauth is not included, after EventLogging data this
is the most useful database to have replicated on the big one box.
Dario
On Apr 29, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Sean Pringle wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Mark Holmquist
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:56:58AM -0700, Leila Zia wrote:
>> Mark, If you haven't looked at Qualtrics in the past, check it out.
>> It has many more options than SurveyMonkey that can make it
>> worthwhile specially if we are already payin
>From a cursory glance at their website, sure. From having actually used
both of them, Qualtrics is far superior in its featureset and how that
featureset is presented, although surveymonkey has got a lot better
recently.
Geneally speaking my advice to the multimedia team would be "don't go near
s
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:56:58AM -0700, Leila Zia wrote:
> Mark, If you haven't looked at Qualtrics in the past, check it out.
> It has many more options than SurveyMonkey that can make it
> worthwhile specially if we are already paying for it.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:34:21AM -0700, Mark Holm
On 04/29/2014 11:30 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mark Holmquist
mailto:mtrac...@member.fsf.org>> wrote:
But a dark threat loomed over the land. With one product using
SurveyMonkey,
other products seemed poised to use it, too [1]. The compromise buil
We reviewed building a survey tool a couple of quarterly reviews ago and
like Stephen said it wasn't prioritized highly compared to many other
requests. This, combined with the availability of sub-optimal but workable
solutions like SurveyMonkey makes it unlikely we'll look into building one
in the
>
> In my view, we have much bigger pain points in gathering data, such as
> lack of a framework for A/B testing. Using SurveyMonkey is the least of our
> problems in gathering qualitative or quantitative data to make decisions
> with.
>
Agreed, bigger fish to fry unfortunately, though I agree the
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
> But a dark threat loomed over the land. With one product using
> SurveyMonkey,
> other products seemed poised to use it, too [1]. The compromise built
> upon the premise that Media Viewer needed a survey in less time than it
> would take to
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
> Our heroes now reach out to their friends in other realms [3]. Is there
> hope for freedom in the land of getting user feedback? Will MediaWiki
> or the grander Wikimedia ecosystem soon have a survey tool that all
> projects
> can use with
(cross-posting, slightly edited to add more context)
I uploaded several plots with absolute editor activation counts and editor
activation rates. These are based on data we generated for the sensitivity
analysis of “new user” metrics. [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_activati
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:08:24PM -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> The only survey I've done was one for gender, on signup. It was
> designed to see the impact of VisualEditor. That used GuidedTour as
> a modal library (not really its original purpose), and just had the
> buttons fire EventLoggi
On 04/29/2014 01:34 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
Our heroes now reach out to their friends in other realms [3]. Is there
hope for freedom in the land of getting user feedback? Will MediaWiki
or the grander Wikimedia ecosystem soon have a survey tool that all projects
can use with minimal hassle?
T
Hi,
Once upon a time, the Multimedia team set out on a great quest [0] to
add a survey to the Media Viewer they were building. This quest ended
with the team deciding that the great Lord SurveyMonkey would provide
the users the survey they needed with the least amount of effort, and
there was much
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Sean Pringle wrote:
>
> As something of a consolation prize, "analytics-store.eqiad.wmnet" is now
> open for SELECT queries from the 'research' user. This box:
>
> - Is a CNAME for dbstore1002.eqaid.wmnet.
>
Just to be contrary I've already messed with the CNAME t
Hi!
The speed bumps from the eventlogging migration are almost ironed out:
1. db1048 has had the eventlogging uuid fields made formally UNIQUE KEY. I
gather Ori will now run some validation against logs to check for remaining
gaps.
2. db1046 which died mid-migration has been restored and is catc
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