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Remove Experimentation Lab's first test experiment
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T373715: MPIC (aka EPIC): Create a plan for dogfooding the alpha release

Description

Remove all traces of our dogfooding test experiment once we have verified data.

This is the patch that added the test experiment: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/1110846

Acceptance Criteria

Required

  • Unit/Integration tests? N/A
  • Documentation? N/A
  • Passed QA? N/A

Event Timeline

Change #1118810 had a related patch set uploaded (by Phuedx; author: Phuedx):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Experiment Platform]: Disable experiments

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1118810

Change #1118810 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Experiment Platform]: Disable experiments

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1118810

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-11T14:22:02Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1118810|[Experiment Platform]: Disable experiments (T373715 T383801)]], [[gerrit:1118811|refactor(AddLink): ignore rows with null in Store (T382270)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-11T14:24:59Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> phuedx, migr, urbanecm: Backport for [[gerrit:1118810|[Experiment Platform]: Disable experiments (T373715 T383801)]], [[gerrit:1118811|refactor(AddLink): ignore rows with null in Store (T382270)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-11T14:33:39Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1118810|[Experiment Platform]: Disable experiments (T373715 T383801)]], [[gerrit:1118811|refactor(AddLink): ignore rows with null in Store (T382270)]] (duration: 11m 36s)

@phuedx cc @Sfaci we're thinking to re-enable the test experiment for testwiki for next week's demos

Change #1119740 had a related patch set uploaded (by Clare Ming; author: Clare Ming):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Re-enable test experiment for testwiki for upcoming demos

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1119740

Change #1119740 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Re-enable test experiment for testwiki for upcoming demos

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1119740

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-17T21:02:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1119879|Restrict unfuzzy on Commons (T386561)]], [[gerrit:1119740|Re-enable test experiment for testwiki for upcoming demos (T383801)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-17T21:06:07Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> urbanecm, pppery, cjming: Backport for [[gerrit:1119879|Restrict unfuzzy on Commons (T386561)]], [[gerrit:1119740|Re-enable test experiment for testwiki for upcoming demos (T383801)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-02-17T21:14:38Z] <urbanecm@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1119879|Restrict unfuzzy on Commons (T386561)]], [[gerrit:1119740|Re-enable test experiment for testwiki for upcoming demos (T383801)]] (duration: 11m 59s)

Change #1130124 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santiago Faci; author: Santiago Faci):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] wikimediaEvents.xLab module: Remove Experimentation Lab's first test experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130124

Change #1130128 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santiago Faci; author: Santiago Faci):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130128

Change #1130124 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] wikimediaEvents.xLab module: Remove Experimentation Lab's first test experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130124

Change #1130128 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1130128

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:06:33Z] <tgr@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:11:20Z] <tgr@deploy1003> reedy, sfaci, tgr, cyndywikime, sbisson: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]] synced t

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-03-24T13:23:19Z] <tgr@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1129229|CommonSettings: Migrate CentralNotice to Virtual Domains (T389348)]], [[gerrit:1130532|[Growth] enwiki: Release Add Link to 20% of newcomers (T388289)]], [[gerrit:1130128|[Experiment Platform] Disable test experiment (T383801)]], [[gerrit:1130169|Enable Section Translation and Unified Dashboard on all wikipedias (T387821)]] (duration: 16m 45s)

@Sfaci: Any idea what this AC

Docs updated with example patch for how-to

is about?

@Sfaci: Any idea what this AC
Docs updated with example patch for how-to
is about?

First of all, I'm sorry because I didn't realize this before.

I would say the AC means something like the documentation we added in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_Platform/Conduct_an_experiment#Example so it seems that it's covered somehow.

Anyway, I would say that it isn't worth spending more time working on this right now considering that new xLab SDKs are close to be released for JS and PHP and we recently created T392626: [SPIKE] Review System Design Sprint documentation to make sure we document all the new work. And as a result of these new SDKs a lot of that documentation, including the mentioned above, will have to be revisited and updated.