In T214998, MediaWiki Engineering team and SRE are planning to get rid of the m. domain
Subsequently, DE is making changes to downstream tables that rely on domain field.
This task will compile the changes needed to be done by Movement-Insights to make sure that our code is updated and metrics don't break.
Impact (please add to this list)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Krinkle | T214998 RFC: Serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL (unified mobile routing) | |||
| Resolved | JAllemandou | T401666 Update unique_devices tables to add the `access_method` field | |||
| Resolved | OSefu-WMF | T402667 Impact analysis and Updates needed for mobile domain removal |
The plan for the mobile domain field in the canonical wiki dataset depends on what happens to the unique devices tables.
If the tables are all rewritten so that the mobile domain is no longer used as an ID, then it does make sense to remove the field. However, if the mobile domain is still used, even for old data only, we should keep the field so it can be used to query that old data.