[Wikimetrics] New feature: re-run failed report (re: "new goodies")

[Jonathan Morgan]

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

[Pine W]

Woohoo! We were discussing this at WMCON. I'll forward this. Thanks.

Pine

Post by Jonathan Morgan
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
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Community Research Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Dan Andreescu]

Correction! I did nothing. This was all the awesome work of Marcel and
Madhumita (our new team member). In addition to what Johnathan mentioned
there are two other things:

1. Madhumita fixed the "Validate Again" functionality on the Cohorts
screen. This lets you re-validate in case some of your users registrations
have not replicated to the labs databases when you add the cohort. The
Validate Again button shows up automatically if you have one or more
invalid users in your cohort. If the invalid users are invalid for known
reasons, there's no benefit to using the feature.
2. Marcel fixed problems with unicode user names in JSON output and
re-deployed this feature (it had been rolled back in the past for causing
other problems).

Great work all.

Post by Pine W
Woohoo! We were discussing this at WMCON. I'll forward this. Thanks.
Pine

Post by Jonathan Morgan
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
--
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Community Research Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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[Jaime Anstee]

Thanks so much Marcel and Madhumita this is most excellent news! =)
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Post by Dan Andreescu
Correction! I did nothing. This was all the awesome work of Marcel and
Madhumita (our new team member). In addition to what Johnathan mentioned
1. Madhumita fixed the "Validate Again" functionality on the Cohorts
screen. This lets you re-validate in case some of your users registrations
have not replicated to the labs databases when you add the cohort. The
Validate Again button shows up automatically if you have one or more
invalid users in your cohort. If the invalid users are invalid for known
reasons, there's no benefit to using the feature.
2. Marcel fixed problems with unicode user names in JSON output and
re-deployed this feature (it had been rolled back in the past for causing
other problems).
Great work all.

Post by Pine W
Woohoo! We were discussing this at WMCON. I'll forward this. Thanks.
Pine

Post by Jonathan Morgan
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
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Community Research Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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