Maniphest T207899

ReadingDepth events should only be sent for pageviews
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	• Tbayer
	Oct 24 2018, 9:53 PM

Description

Background

(Per a discussion yesterday with @Jdlrobson and @Groceryheist:)

The ReadingDepth schema should not send events for user actions that are not considered page views - in particular, edits and action pages like action=history URLs should be excluded.

Special pages (namespace -1) can be left as is. (There is some value in having data for them too, which outweighs consistency with the pageview definition in this case - the pageview definition FAQ about this is a bit ambiguous and not entirely correct anyway.)

Developer notes

Currently ReadingDepth does not check the value of wgAction meaning ReadingDepth events are sent on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain?action=edit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain?action=history etc..

A conditional should be added to prohibit this.

QA steps

ReadingDepth is enabled for 100% of users on Reading web staging

Verify no reading depth event is loaded on https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=edit for both desktop and mobile
Verify no reading depth event is loaded on https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page?action=history for both desktop and mobile
Verify a reading depth event is sent on https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page for both desktop and mobile

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T229042: Reading_depth: deactivate eventlogging instrumentation
T208594: ReadingDepth: Add some new fields to the schema
Mentioned Here: T229042: Reading_depth: deactivate eventlogging instrumentation

Event Timeline

• Tbayer created this task.Oct 24 2018, 9:53 PM

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Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog; removed Web-Team-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-Board-2018-19-Q2).Oct 24 2018, 9:56 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.

• Tbayer updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 3 2018, 12:38 AM

• Tbayer mentioned this in T208594: ReadingDepth: Add some new fields to the schema.Nov 3 2018, 12:48 AM

On second thought, the data for some special pages might be valuable from a product perspective too, which may outweigh the value of consistency with the pageview definition (even more so as the latter is currently not clearly documented on the linked page). Will discuss with @ovasileva today.

ovasileva triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 5 2018, 7:50 PM

In T207899#4721339, @Tbayer wrote:

On second thought, the data for some special pages might be valuable from a product perspective too, which may outweigh the value of consistency with the pageview definition (even more so as the latter is currently not clearly documented on the linked page). Will discuss with @ovasileva today.

Updated per discussion with @ovasileva

ovasileva moved this task from Triaged but Future to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Nov 5 2018, 10:27 PM

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 7 2018, 5:36 PM

• Niedzielski added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaEvents.Nov 7 2018, 5:38 PM

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 7 2018, 5:42 PM

Jdlrobson removed a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaEvents.Nov 7 2018, 5:47 PM

Jdlrobson set the point value for this task to 3.

Jdlrobson moved this task from Upcoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jan 7 2019, 6:51 PM

ovasileva added a project: Reading Depth.Feb 25 2019, 4:30 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Triaged but Future to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 9 2019, 4:32 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Upcoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 26 2019, 6:12 AM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Triaged but Future to Product Owner Backlog on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 31 2019, 7:02 PM