Alpha release: Wikistats 2 UI feedback From Erik Z
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	Erik_Zachte
	Oct 12 2017, 4:23 PM

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Here is some feedback on the new Wikistats 2 UI. Page https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects/reading/total-pageviews:

Let me explain first: when I see a new (stats) page I'm drawn to minor glitches first. That's how I'm wired, can't help it. For example when I'm asked to comment on some prose, I first spot spelling mistakes. Once those are out of my system I can ponder the actual message. Keeping the minutiae for later won't work, I will have forgotten them. So here it goes.

NOTE: We moved some things to a sibling task, T182109. What remains below is addressed in the currently deployed version.

About 456.2: this is too much precision.

It suggests we have extremely accurate metrics, which usually is not the case.
It also makes numbers harder to read. Not much of a problem for isolated numbers but slightly annoying when there a many. Every transformation we do in our head (such as rounding) lowers the bandwidth of real information.

Can we have thousands separators on any number larger than 3 digits? Right now it takes multiple seconds (no hyperbole) before I know: is 19269221845 almost two billion, or almost 20 billion. More on this in http://infodisiac.com/blog/2011/11/saving-lifes/

I'm happy to see I can select period '2-Year' now :-)

is this 'zoom-out'? it's not 'full page'. How can I tell? There is no hover hint. Also, I would expect it changes symbol after I clicked it (maybe arrows pointing inwards), but it doesn't.

the lines break at unfortunate places (not dependent on window size), you may choose to insert <br> tags.

make logo link to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home ? (NOTE: we talked about this and feel it would be too confusing for users, but we are thinking of an About page where we can add links like this, and more context.)

On mouseover at the line chart the circles are sticky, jump from one month to the next, the vertical line isn't. (This is how we intended it to work, to give people a sense of both where they're hovering and where the data is coming from. Let's see what people say about the alpha, if others agree we can easily change it).

That's all for now. Feel free to call me a nitpicker, as I am just that.

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Adds metric schema checking and improves display of number units	analytics/wikistats2	master	+187 -23
Clean up style and tweak UX	analytics/wikistats2	master	+194 -202
[WIP] Clean up UI and aggregations	analytics/wikistats2	master	+140 -34

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Mentioned In: T182109: Present a page view metric description to the user that they are likely to understand
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Erik_Zachte created this task.Oct 12 2017, 4:23 PM

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Erik_Zachte assigned this task to • Nuria.Oct 12 2017, 4:25 PM

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Ottomata renamed this task from Wikistats 2 UI feedback to Alpha release: Wikistats 2 UI feedback.Oct 12 2017, 4:29 PM

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Erik_Zachte renamed this task from Alpha release: Wikistats 2 UI feedback to Wikistats 2 UI feedback.Oct 12 2017, 4:31 PM

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In general: can we have numbers right-align? E.g. https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/am.wiktionary.org/reading/total-pageviews but also elsewhere.

• Nuria renamed this task from Wikistats 2 UI feedback to Wikistats 2 UI feedback From Erik Z.Oct 12 2017, 4:41 PM

On some places I see K/M/B for thousand/million/billion.
On other places k/m/b. Maybe make a general formatting routine for this (preferedly language sensitive).

Compare https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/cs.wikiversity.org boxes.

We should aim to fix all these and i leave up to @Milimetric whether he wants to tag this Alpha (1st release) or Beta (2nd release)

That page is almost useless for a wider audience. I expect bounce rate 99%. Maybe take a few lines from that page and put it in a Wikistats 2 specific dictionary. With 'advanced' link for the hard-core readers?

Probably true, but then we should have a friendly-er intro. I do not think we should add yet another page where metrics are documented.

No nitpicking this time. An y-axis that doesn't start at zero, in combination with no numbers along the y-axis makes it anybody's guess what the chart tells. And most people will guess wrong.

Erik, I want to fix most of these things for the first launch, and most of them are easy to fix. I've already submitted a couple of patches. The only question I have is about the first thing you mention, the "All project families - All languages" text being too wide to fit. That one we could change but we might have wikis that are too long in there so Marcel did this nifty trick where if you hover over the textbox it will scroll to show you the content. I'm curious if you saw that and what you thought of it.

Milimetric renamed this task from Wikistats 2 UI feedback From Erik Z to Alpha release: Wikistats 2 UI feedback From Erik Z.Oct 13 2017, 12:24 AM

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@Milimetric thanks for caring!

Yes I saw Marcels scroll solution and it works for me. So it's just the default content on first visit that my remark is about. Most people scan a page from top-left to bottom-right, or so I heard (BTW probably different for RTL languages). So that text that doesn't fit is what they see first. It's really a cosmetic detail.

Change 386774 had a related patch set uploaded (by Milimetric; owner: Milimetric):
[analytics/wikistats2@master] [WIP] Clean up UI and aggregations

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/386774

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 27 2017, 3:27 AM

Change 386774 merged by Fdans:
[analytics/wikistats2@master] [WIP] Clean up UI and aggregations

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/386774

Change 387502 had a related patch set uploaded (by Milimetric; owner: Milimetric):
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Clean up style and tweak UX

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/387502

Milimetric moved this task from In Progress to Ready to Deploy on the Analytics-Kanban board.Oct 31 2017, 2:25 PM

Change 387502 merged by Fdans:
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Clean up style and tweak UX

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/387502

• fdans moved this task from Ready to Deploy to Done on the Analytics-Kanban board.Nov 2 2017, 2:59 PM

Milimetric moved this task from Done to Paused on the Analytics-Kanban board.Nov 2 2017, 3:26 PM

Change 391003 had a related patch set uploaded (by Fdans; owner: Fdans):
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Adds metric schema checking and improves display of number units

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/391003

Nemo_bis awarded a token.Nov 13 2017, 4:02 PM

Change 391003 merged by Fdans:
[analytics/wikistats2@master] Adds metric schema checking and improves display of number units

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/391003

Erik_Zachte updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 27 2017, 5:51 PM

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Milimetric mentioned this in T182109: Present a page view metric description to the user that they are likely to understand.

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• Nuria closed this task as Resolved.Dec 12 2017, 5:12 PM

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