Community metrics

How is the MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech community doing? Let's analyze the data available in order to highlight the contributors and areas setting an example, and also the bottlenecks or inactive corners requiring our attention.

Your feedback and requests are welcome at the discussion page and at the Analytics mailing list.

Reports
We aim to publish reports interpreting the data obtained on a quarterly basis. Below you can find the initial reports published, based on data retrieved manually.
 * /2013-Q1/ - we are starting doing the reports on a quarter basis.
 * /December 2012/
 * /November 2012/
 * /October 2012/

Metrics dashboard
Under development since June 2013: Provisional URL. The final location will be at Wikitech Labs in a few days, and then we will announce it officially to the community.
 * http://bitergia.com/projects/mediawiki-dashboard/browser/

Updated daily, this dashboard provides data about our Git repositories, Bugzilla and mailing lists. Gerrit (see ) and IRC are planned and coming soon. Below you can find the details about what sources are being scanned.

We are also polishing the data (finding duplicates, assigning contributors to the WMF and other organizations...). If you see any mistake or possibility of improvement please report it.

Powered by Open Source projects Metrics Grimoire and Viz Grimoire. See also the development specific to this dashboard in GitHub. Bugs, enhancement requests and patches for these projects must be submitted directly upstream.

Git
ssh -p 29418 gerrit.wikimedia.org gerrit ls-projects | grep "mediawiki/extensions
 * The source code repos analyzed are mediawiki/core and all the mediawiki extensions:
 * FIXME: This is only a portion (a big one, yes) of all the repositories we need to scan. The default is everything at gerrit.wikimedia.org but let's look at every repo before adding it just in case.

gerrit.wikimedia.org

 * FIXME - Soon-ish (see ).

bugzilla.wikimedia.org

 * The products analyzed are MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions
 * FIXME: This is only a portion (a big one, yes) of all the repositories we need to scan. The default is everything at gerrit.wikimedia.org but let's look at every repo before adding it just in case.
 * FIXME - Time to fix graph goes over the roof! (funny, isn't it?)  :)
 * FIXME - Fine tune By repository.

mediawiki.org

 * FIXME - What is the plan with MediaWiki metrics?

lists.wikimedia.org

 * FIXME - mailing lists missing: mediawiki-l, ee, qa... more?
 * FIXME - Is it possible to specify the number of subscribers?

IRC

 * It will incorporated to the analysis before end of August

Contributors
The process to merge users identities from different data sources has three steps: At the end there is a common upeople (unique people) table for all data sources and all data sources map its people table to this common upeople table. Gerrit (SCR) and IRC are not yet supported.
 * unifypeople.py analyzes people in SCM (Git) trying to join identities from the email and the name
 * its2identities.py does the same process for ITS identities (Bugzilla)
 * mls2identities.py does the same process for MLS identities (mailman)

The user pages for Top contributors are linked in the top tables in the metrics browser. For example for SCM the third global committer has his own personal page.

Once unique people exists, other categories are created using it. For example, companies classification is done initially with a script that uses email domains if available. The classification supports periods of time to cover that a unique people has worked for several companies. There is some experimental support also for countries.
 * FIXME - Contributors must be linked to WMF and other orgs.
 * FIXME - Is By country relevant? Do we want to gather that data?
 * FIXME - Plan for linking this data to user profiles? Where?

Other data sources and tools
Git
 * Wikimedia stats in Ohloh including many projects.
 * "How many unique contributors submitted unique pull requests to a https://github.com/wikimedia/ repo" - Python script by marktraceur.

Gerrit
 * Gerrit/Navigation
 * MediaWiki Gerrit stats  (Is it working? 2013-06-28)  and how to query Gerrit data.
 * Number of gerrit committers (marktraceur's bash script)
 * cmd-query for Gerrit.

Bugzilla
 * Bugzilla Weekly Report.

mediawiki.org
 * monthly Statistics of page views and how the data is gathered.

Mailman
 * Wikimedia Mail Stats: PowerPosters.

Key performance indicators
Key factors to watch, in the scope of projects deployed in Wikimedia servers:
 * Are the teams more efficient processing contributions?
 * Is the share of non-WMF contributions growing?
 * Are WMF and non-WMF contributions treated equally?
 * Are the attraction and retention of new contributors improving?
 * Are we improving the sustainability of our community?

Who contributes code
Who is contributing merged code each quarter? How is the weight of the WMF evolving? What regions have a higher density of contributors? The evolution of the total amount of merged commits should be visible too. Two charts? What type?
 * Number of developers and commits by organization: Wikimedia (WMF, WMDE...), known companies, OSS projects (if relevant) and independents.
 * Number of developers and commits by country, based on the data provided.

Related bug report.

Gerrit review queue
How long is the Gerrit review queue over time? How long does it take to review code contributions? Are we improving? Are Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia contributions processed equally? Who is doing better and worse? How to calculate the average time? A few old open changes might distort the picture. What if we compare the pure average of the 100% of commits with the average removing the 10% of slowest and fastest?
 * Number of Wikimedia / non-Wikimedia commits reviewed in <2 days, <1 week, <1 month, <3 months, >3 months. (values may be fine tuned based on actual data)
 * Same as above, per project. Ranked from slowest to fastest.

One chart with extra data in a table? What kind of chart?

Related bug report.

Code contributors new / gone
Who are the new code contributors (commits + reviews)? Are they increasing their involvement? Who seems to be on a way out or gone? How are our contributor intake & loss evolving? Two charts? Which kind of charts?
 * Number of new contributors with 1 / 2-5 / 6+ changes submitted in the past 3 months (values may be fine tuned based on actual data).
 * (How to register increasing engagement versus one-offs or new contributors disengaging and vanishing after a short period?)
 * Number of contributors stopping contributing or decreasing continuously in the past 3 months.

Related bug report.

Bugzilla response time
How long does it take to give a first response to reporters of Low-Immediate / trivial-blocker bugs? How long until acknowledged bugs are resolved? Are we using the importance parameters consistently? Are we improving? Same question as in Gerrit review queue about how to calculate average times.
 * Average time for an accepted bug report between bug creation date and PATCH_TO_REVIEW status being set
 * Average time for an accepted bug report between PATCH_TO_REVIEW status being set and RESOLVED FIXED status being set.
 * Average time for an accepted bug report between bug creation date and first comment by not the reporter her/himself.

Three charts? What chart types?

Related bug report.

Team
Quim Gil from the Wikimedia Engineering Community team is coordinating the Metrics Dasboard project, which is being implemented by Bitergia as contractors.

The Bitergia team working in the MediaWiki dashboard is formed by Daniel Izquierdo, Luis Cañas and Jesus Gonzalez Barahona and Alvaro del Castillo as project manager.

The ownership of this project will transition to the Wikimedia Analytics team during 2013-14.