Switching to a new ticket now that the scope has changed dramatically. Thank you to Nuria for working through the engineering issues with us.

Shall do, although I don't think they're comparable (unless I count as a corporate server outside WMF control already? That was fast ;p)

Sure; as I've left the Foundation I'm somewhat hindered in setting up a meeting. I'm basically free for the next week so please set one up whenever works for you.

Indeed, although unless people are going to substantially change their minds it might be better to bump this so we can come up with a resolution. Let's look at it after the weekend.

Namely: it is possible, it is endorsed by both the research team and our actual product teams, it has ethical and legal +1s from legal, but AnEng don't want to permit it?

Sure, but we need something with the granularity and changerate of the IP address, is the thing.

Well, quite. The bug currently says it needs fixing because [analytics concern that is now moot]; I'd suggest a seperate issue opened for MediaWiki proper and then going through that gauntlet. AnEng aren't the best people to determine non-analytics MW concerns.

Why would we add it to the schema? If it's for the purpose of the actual user display we don't want to be gathering it on a sampled basis (which the schema is), we want to be gathering it for everyone.

This is a tremendously thorough report. Well done Mikhail! :D

There is a big difference between "theoretically it's accessible" and "it's broadcast without user intervention".

It's not SVG already? I thought we used SVG for all our UI elements.

Now needs review by @bearloga. https://github.com/wikimedia-research/PortalSearchBoxTest/blob/master/report.pdf

Could you provide the date that's erroring?

That's...confusing. I don't see any if(file) check. And it shouldn't be erroring at all due to the tryCatch!

@mpopov no ya didn't. The desktop sets lacked the 16th-17th. Now fixed.

The explanation is it's not finding any 0-referer events, but I suspect that's not what you want :P. Investigating now.

Orienting towards not describing work as 'garbage', even when it's our work, is a good thing to build into your head, dude ;p.

Pretty sure we did this.

Pretty sure we did this.

Partial backfilling, to the portal data, done. Other schemas are still lagging.

Tiffany is going to review with Michelle.

Okay, just found out the why. Cool! :D

Why?

It's worth noting that the API itself does include be-tarask data (I just checked it). Agreed on the need for a stats.grok.se replacement. Began idly noodling on one using the stats.grok source code, actually.

Is phabricator widely used by either the editing or reading populations these projects would impact?

@Deskana do we want to do this? Should Deborah make the call?

Test didn't run in an analysable fashion.

Test didn't run in an analysable fashion.

@Deskana do we still want to do this? Should I be asking Deborah?

Initial documentation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Testing#Portal_Search_Box_Tests

Data is valid!