I started working on this at the Hackathon and created a draft of an updated public data portal, reorganized around the type of data (e.g. editing metadata) rather than the data source (e.g. EventStreams).

I also connected with @Lea_WMDE and discussed data analysts at Wikimedia Deutschland; there's only one contractor currently, but hopefully there will be more soon, so that would be another opportunity for clear, well-organized documentation to deliver value.

• meta:Research:Data - edited as part of T293685: Review data landing page
• meta:Research:Data/Dashboards - edited in https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research%3AData%2FDashboards&type=revision&diff=23714077&oldid=22299265

Just a note that as of 2022 October the Data Engineering team is working on moving content from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/ subpages to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_Engineering

Status update: I'm in the research and information-gathering phase, building my understanding of this space and meeting with subject matter experts to try to narrow down priority focus areas so that I can scope project work for this and coming quarters.

• In the past week I had 3 meetings with people from Data Platform Eng, Product Analytics and Data Products; next week I have two more meetings scheduled.
• I read various documents written by data consumers, like this article and this PDF guide written by a Wikimedian in 2012, which, though old, still provides a useful conceptual framework and ideas for how to structure content that introduces data consumers to this topic area.
• I read many wiki pages and project docs, in an attempt to get up to speed on the current status of APP work and other ongoing projects.
• I learned about webrequests and how the pageviews public dataset is generated, and I started modeling and auditing the documentation for this dataset and its sources.
• I learned about the data model behind some of the major tables written by MediaWiki, and started a list of important concepts to make sure data access docs cover for those data sources.

Goals for next week:

• Finalize meetings with project owners / subject area experts
• Get up to speed on the status of Commons Impact Metrics work and potential areas of documentation impact in that project
• Identify focus areas for tech docs project work in Q2-Q4 and start scoping specific project tasks and milestones.
• Learn about our other major public datasets and how they are generated
• Continue gathering data consumer use cases and examples of analysis tasks to inform future information design work

Work in this area will proceed in collaboration with the Research and Data Platform Engineering teams as we work on creating new content to help researchers navigate our data landscape, while also coordinating that with changes to the underlying data infrastructure and documentation strategy for that. Details to be worked out in the coming weeks; but at minimum this will include:

• Revising and updating content on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
• Work on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343146

I've started a draft on-wiki that attempts to start integrating some of the Research-focused learning goals and data user journeys I identified into an outline. Will continue to build on this as we figure out how to structure the content, i.e. as a set of wiki pages and/or a revised version of the Research:Data portal, or something else still TBD: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TBurmeister_(WMF)/Sandbox/Research:Data

@KCVelaga also has a draft page for dataset-specific content, but we still need to strategize about what info needs to be presented where before we can get a good sense of the "how to present it": https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KCVelaga_(WMF)/Data_sources_sandbox