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Remove WikipediaPortal instrumentation
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As part of migration of legacy schemas to Modern Event Platform, WikipediaPortal was identified as one that will need to be deprecated. Its instrumentation is located in wikimedia/portals repository.

Since the data collected through that instrumentation is not used anywhere nor by anyone (and has not been for quite some time), it is time for that old instrumentation to be completely removed.

(And probably the associated tables in event and event_sanitized databases in Hadoop/Hive to be dropped as well.)

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mpopov created this task.Sep 9 2020, 3:35 PM
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Jdlrobson assigned this task to ovasileva.Sep 16 2020, 5:58 PM
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mforns mentioned this in T273246: Whitelist Portal and WikipediaApp event data for (sanitized) long-term storage.Feb 26 2021, 5:09 PM
• EYener subscribed.Feb 26 2021, 5:23 PM
mpopov closed this task as Declined.Mar 2 2021, 5:32 PM
In T273246#6872423, @EYener wrote:

we do use this schema in Fundraising, and would like to use it more. Keeping eyes on the Portal is a good health metric for how users interact with Wikipedia, and the same can be said for the WikiApp and WikiAppiOS schemas. We run fundraising campaigns in each of these places, and keeping a close eye on how user behavior changes over time, across several years of fundraising campaigns, is important to ensuring that we are not under-serving a particular user base who sees our campaigns. We also want to ensure that there are no technical issues with our campaigns in a particular region / access method / etc.

Wasn't aware of anyone using this data; closing task.

Ottomata subscribed.May 5 2021, 5:02 PM

Hi @EYener, as far as we can tell, this instrumentation code does not have an owner. It is custom code copy/pasted from the MW EventLogging extension years ago. It won't work as is for the Event Platform migration. I started working on this in T282012 but then realized it isn't quite as easy as it sounds.

It is possible to copy/paste the code again and adapt it so it works with Event Platform, but we'd just be carrying over some un-owned tech debt. We'd much rather just shed this tech debt now and turn off this instrumentation.

Unless, your team would like to own this instrumentation? If so, you all could do the migration with our help. Let us know how to proceed. Thanks!

Ottomata mentioned this in T282012: WikipediaPortal Event Platform Migration.May 6 2021, 2:09 PM
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