Talk:Community metrics/Archive 1

Fishing expeditions
To avoid problems associated with data analysis, you may want to describe your problem statements/hypotheses first. - Amgine (talk) 16:07, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Very good point! A first stab to the fish: User:Qgil/MediaWiki Community Metrics.--Qgil (talk) 16:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Drafting Bugzilla metrics
The agreed entries have been moved to Community_metrics/Master_report. Thank you for the discussion!

Below you can find some hard bones left.

People

 * Active in the past 12 months. (likely needs a SQL query -- User:Malyacko)
 * New accounts in the last month. (needs a SQL query -- User:Malyacko)
 * From these, how many filed a bug or comment.

Activity

 * Average time of resolution (Fixed, Invalid, etc).
 * In the past year.
 * In the past month.


 * New comments (total, last year, last month).

New bugs

 * Average time to response to new bugs.
 * In the past year.
 * In the past month.

What is the MediaWiki community?
Might be a good idea to define that before you start asking questions about it :-)

Are you talkint about the community of MediaWiki developers, or MediaWiki reusers (as in: people who are involved in operating a MediaWiki site in some form), or MediaWiki users (as in: anyone who is a registered and active user of a MediaWiki wiki), or the community around MediaWiki.org specifically? The proposed metrics seems to concentrate on the first and the last (there is no mention of e.g. number of MediaWiki installations worldwide, which is a good metric of how large the wider MediaWiki community is), in which case it might be clearer to call it the Wikimedia tech community. --Tgr (talk) 01:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * So far, it seems to be simply defined as "all those who care about improving MediaWiki": does it need to be more than this? It means not only using it but also filing and triaging bugs, working on code, improving documentation on this wiki (is there some metrics on this wiki). Wikimedians are not the only ones editing this wiki, and the more users we have the more bug reports will presumably be filed; not to mention corporate users which contribute code, of course. --Nemo 02:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The truth is, I'm not sure myself. :) The main goal is to map contributors, contributions, and opportunities to contribute. So far it hasn't been a priority (for me) to find out how many passive MW users are out there, but this doesn't mean that it can't be a priority in the future or a priority for someone else right now. What is clear is that a community of many and diverse users of a piece of software is better than a community with e.g. only one superuser. In that sense knowing whether the number of WM instances out there is growing or not would be useful as well. I'm happy to include new metrics in the reports as long as there is a way to retrieve them. PS: about the name, maybe it is a good idea to all it Wikimedia tech community anyway. Not sure yet, though... --Qgil (talk) 19:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

What wiki stats?
It's time to start retrieving statistics related to documentation. What useful stats can we extract fro this wiki? Starting with Special:Statistics.--Qgil (talk) 18:13, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * would probably give all needed info, but only if 35198 is fixed. Nemo 10:04, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't know about http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaMEDIAWIKI.htm . Thank you!--Qgil (talk) 15:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Bug fixers this month
How useful is this statistic? Most bugs are not assigned to anybody when they're fixed, or the assignee is not the real fixer, or it's impossible to say who's the fixer (for instance on shell requests it's hard to say who "fixed" the bug, the most important responsibility belongs to the shell user). Maybe it should be renamed to "Assignees of bugs closed this month" for clarity. Nemo 10:04, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * At least it's useful to show that our bug handling workflow could be improved. When a developer takes on a bug report he should assign it to himself. This is a good way to avoid having two people working in the same issue. Let's keep it for now, perhaps we see a trend to fix this problem.--Qgil (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The statistic doesn't take in account the assignee field, but the user setting a RESOLVED state. --Dereckson (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Addendum. This is only true for the weekly statistic received by mail, not for this report. --Dereckson (talk) 17:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * When you quickly fix an issue (not: work on something for a while), setting the assignee field is an additional step that doesn't add much value for anybody. Statistics for RESOLVED FIXED should be gathered in Gerrit instead. For all other Bugzilla resolutions this could be seen as statistics about triagers etc... --Malyacko (talk) 16:28, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Good news. Bugzilla 4.2 has a link take to quickly set yourself as the bug assignee. --Dereckson (talk) 17:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Are we seeing such a trend? --Nemo 15:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Code reviews
It should be interesting to add a statistic on number of code reviews (specifically, comments), especially until is fixed. I think the only "reliable" way is to use gerrit-wm feeds, although sometimes it's down and some non-mediawiki repos are not on #mediawiki: after downloading the logs tarball, something like  is enough to count. Merges are harder to measure because self-merges should be excluded, obviously. --Nemo 15:32, 22 January 2013 (UTC)