Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/1257

This is not Wikistats related. I have no tools for, nor experience with, determining particulars of any subnet. Does any other team member have clues on this?

I changed it to Wikistats because Mark mentioned that he had emailed you about this, it could be a feature request. It's definitely not User Metrics either.
@mark: to which component does this bug belong?

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@mark: to which component does this bug belong?

I'm not sure where you should put this, so let me explain why this information would be useful and you can direct me to the right place.

Most of our developers have high-speed internet connections. However some users use slower connections. Without a way to track this information, we remain oblivious to their concerns until a saavy enough user complains.

This specific bug requests information about people using their mobile connection as their main point of access to the internet. This is important because mobile developers may tend to dismiss this use case as insignificant.

Maybe they would be right. But until we have data, we have no way to measure the significance.

The larger issue, though, is that we should have data on users and their connection speeds. Until we have this, we have no idea what percentage of users find the "heavier" interfaces that we're providing too unweildy to use.

Also see: Bug 55842 - UI tests should check performance on slow connections

I believe that we could obtain an estimate on user's connection speeds via the maxmind geoip databases to which we have access.
From this page: https://www.maxmind.com/geoip2-overview-2021-06-08.pdf

Hello @MarkAHershberger!
As I am onboarding as the new Product Manager to Data Products, I am going through tasks on the Data Products board to learn more about them. This ticket has sadly been lingering since 2013.
I am curious to learn about the efforts specifically this would support.
Thank you, in advance, for helping me by adding more context here.

I'm not sure what you should do with this since I haven't thought about it in 10 years. Mobile technology and data connections have changed significantly in that period of time, also.

is it fair to assume, give this unfortunate time lag of a decade, that this request no longer necessary?

I think it is fair to say that this issue depends on what the WMF's strategy is for less developed areas. I'm not the right person to ask.

I would ask @JArguello-WMF probably has an opinion since they recent updated the ticket.

My personal thoughts on this: I think the WMF should have an idea of how many people there are that use the site on low-bandwidth, high-latency connections and, further, should determine if it could better fulfill its mission by serving a higher percentage of those people.

This task proposes one way of measuring that. If there is a better way or the WMF already has other projects in place that do this. then this can be closed.