Analytics/Visualization, Reporting & Applications/status

Last update on: 2013-04-monthly

2012-07-31
Limn released on GitHub!

2012-07-monthly
The Analytics team published the source code for Limn to GitHub this month.

2012-08-10
Phabricator to track GitHub Limn

2012-08-monthly
We started working on the migration from dygraphs to d3.js, and improving documentation to ease the on-boarding of our new front-end engineer.

2012-09-21
Finishing first steps of conversion to d3. Start to migrate some more dashboards to use Limn.

2012-09-monthly
Initial prototype of d3-based graphing is done, which now needs to be integrated into Limn. The team has been training other groups to use Limn to create custom dashboards.

2012-10-monthly
The migration to d3 rendering was completed. The design for the new Edit UI is complete. We are porting over the monthly metrics meeting dashboard to the new Limn and are aiming to show it off in December.

2012-11-19
We are porting over the monthly metrics meeting dashboard to the new Limn and are aiming to show it off in December.

2012-11-monthly
<section begin="2012-11-monthly"/>David Schoonover and Dan Andreescu are working on a major rework of Limn, using Knockout.js and d3.js. The team hopes to have this ready to present the metrics for the December 6 metrics meeting at the Wikimedia Foundation.<section end="2012-11-monthly"/>

2012-12-monthly
<section begin="2012-12-monthly"/>A major rework of Limn to use d3.js and Knockout.js is complete and will be used for the next ReportCard. Dan Andreescu and David Schoonover are working on graph editing and geospatial data visualization.<section end="2012-12-monthly"/>

2013-01-monthly
<section begin="2013-01-monthly"/>The team made performance improvements and added new visualizations. Bar, line, and geo plots can now be built ad hoc from arbitrary data. Evan Rosen's Grantmaking and Programs dashboard was migrated to this new version of Limn. Current work includes a collaboration with the E3 team to provide visualizations, and development of a MediaWiki extension that will allow creation and editing of graphs.<section end="2013-01-monthly"/>

2013-02-monthly
<section begin="2013-02-monthly"/>Highlights in the past month include
 * Stacked charts
 * Debianization & Puppetization
 * New E3 and Grantmaking dashboards
 * Ad-hoc visualization of datasource<section end="2013-02-monthly"/>

2013-04-monthly
<section begin="2013-04-monthly"/>We published our monthly report card to http://reportcard.wmflabs.org (which is currently showing reports for April).

Mobile As part of Wikimedia's ongoing mobile initiative, we helped develop analytics that would support ongoing deliver and planning of mobile functionality.
 * We've started to analyze mobile site pageviews by device class in order to determine how we will invest in building applications and sites that support various device formats. These reports are available here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/kraken-public/webrequest/mobile/device/props/
 * We've also started to perform session analysis of mobile site visits in order to help us understand user behavior when using the mobile sites, which will inform decisions about ongoing development efforts. At present, this data is only for internal consumption by the Mobile team.
 * A new overall mobile pageviews report is now available at http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/TablesPageViewsMonthlySquidsMobile.htm, which has improved the accuracy of our reporting due to changes in how the MobileFrontend extension requests a wiki article (improving performance).
 * If you're interested in learning more about how we're calculating mobile pageviews, please see our documentation (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Spetrea/New_mobile_pageviews_documentation).

We also introduced new dashboards for our E2 program here: http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/. This will help the E2 team to monitor the usage of Echo, the new Mediawiki notification system.

Finally, we've added pageview stats for Hungarian and Ukranian Wikivoyage: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm<section end="2013-04-monthly"/>