There is an existing dashboard (https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/dashboard/222/, built for T259308 & T260254) with a bunch of relevant metrics, although it looks like it is no longer producing up-to-date data. @nettrom_WMF is going to check whether it would take a lot of effort to resurrect.

It looks like the VE media dialog is instrumented quite extensively. Below is a list of all interactions that are currently instrumented.

See doc here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TJM51_xsfvRsnC_gvQ6GU8Cy_4lcclddev88UtO3924/, or screenshots below:

search-change-query

Changed search query (every keypress)

search-clear-query

Cleared search query by clicking on indicator

search-choose-image

Selected image from the search results

search-confirm-image

Confirmed selected image by clicking "Use this image" (which then takes user to the captions step)

search-change-image

Arrived back at search, either through hitting the back button from a selected image, or by clicking "Change image" from the captions step.

search-upload-image

Initiated file upload

dialog-insert

Clicked "Insert" to add selected image to the page

dialog-abort

Closed media dialog without making changes

dialog-done

Clicked "Apply changes" to edit existing image on the page

window-open-from-command

Opened media dialog by doubleclicking an existing image

window-open-from-context

Opened media dialog by selecting "Edit" from the context menu that appears when clicking an existing image

window-open-from-tool

Opened media dialog through the toolbar

I'm sure not all of it will be useful, but that's pretty much what is available, with data going back 3 months (unless we actively start storing these).

Oh I forgot about mobile/desktop. If anyone needs any of the above actions broken down by platform, LMK, but until then, here's a breakdown of all of the above interactions in total, by platform:

desktop: 3582875
phone: 268363

Another one: the amount of times the media dialog is opened as a proportion of the total amount of initialized VE sessions:

In T391488#10754855, @matthiasmullie wrote:

There is an existing dashboard (https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/dashboard/222/, built for T259308 & T260254) with a bunch of relevant metrics, although it looks like it is no longer producing up-to-date data. @nettrom_WMF is going to check whether it would take a lot of effort to resurrect.

From @nettrom_WMF:

The notebook that populates the underlying data appears to run just fine, so I'll set it up to update daily moving forward. I'll also backfill it with data going back to Feb 1. If more work is needed (e.g. the desktop/mobile split mentioned in T391488), I think that's a good candidate for a consultation hour. If team needs this more permanently, then an R&DS request is needed.

I've completed backfilling the data from Feb 1 onwards. There's now a daily cron job that updates the underlying data, it runs at 05:20 UTC every day. The dashboard has been updated with filters so that it by default shows the last quarter's data. Older data is still available, it's just not shown immediately.

@nettrom_WMF thanks a lot for reviving the dashboard. I am trying to get older data - 1-2 years, but when I set the timeframe to last year only the last quarter shows.

@AUgolnikova-WMF : There's a gap in the dashboard between Dec 20222 and Feb 2025 because the dashboard was no longer in use, and because the underlying data source doesn't go back further than 90 days. The "Daily Media Searches in VE" chart is different, it'll always show the last 90 days because that's querying event data directly (and that's the same data source that used for the aggregations shown in all the other charts).

I hope that clarifies, although it doesn't make it any less unfortunate that we don't have that data.

@nettrom_WMF ah okay, thanks for explaining!