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[Analytics] [Tech Debt] Expand documentation on accessing JupyterLab via IDEs
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Wikidata Analytics Request

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Purpose

Please provide as much context as possible as well as what the produced insights or services will be used for.

A more convenient workflow for accessing the stats servers could be accessing them via IDEs like VS Code and PyCharm. As of now we just have documentation for this in one place, and only for PyCharm.

Specific Results

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Update the data access onboarding Jupyter notebook and the Analytics Platform Access Google doc to make sure that each has directions on how to access the stat machines from IDEs.

Desired Outputs

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  • Fiigure out steps for VS Code
  • Add them to data access onboarding notebook
  • Put directions for VS Code and PyCharm into platform access doc

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Tech debt, so no deadline.


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AndrewTavis_WMDE renamed this task from [Analytics] [Tech debt] Expand documentation on accessing JupyterLab via IDEs to [Analytics] [Tech Debt] Expand documentation on accessing JupyterLab via IDEs.Aug 22 2025, 1:42 PM

In Review as this has been completed as a part of onbaording a contracting to the team :) @ItamarWMDE did the PyCharm docs and I just finalized them by adding VS Code.

Resolving this as the tech debt work was done ✅