How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out!

📈 Incidents

Zero documented incidents in November. [1] That's the only month this year without any (publicly documented) incidents. In 2019, November was also the only such month. [3]

Learn about recent incidents at Incident documentation on Wikitech, or Preventive measures in Phabricator.

📊 Trends

The overall increase in errors was relatively low this past month, similar to the November-December period last year.

What's new is that we can start to see a positive trend emerging in the backlogs where we've shrunk issue count three months in a row, from the 233 high in October, down to the 181 we have in the ol' backlog today.

Month-over-month plots based on spreadsheet data. [4]

📖 Outstanding errors

Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help.
→ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/

Summary over recent months:

• ⚠️ July 2019 (2 of 18 tasks): One task closed (-1).
• ⚠️ August 2019 (1 of 14 tasks): no change.
• ⚠️ September 2019 (3 of 12 tasks): no change.
• ⚠️ October 2019 (5 of 12 tasks): no change.
• ⚠️ November 2019 (1 of 5 tasks): no change.
• ⚠️ December 2019 (3 of 9 tasks left), no change.
• January 2020 (3 of 7 tasks left), One task closed (-1).
• February (2 of 7 tasks left), no change.
• March (2 of 2 tasks left), no change.
• April (9 of 14 tasks left): no change.
• May (7 of 14 tasks left): no change.
• June (7 of 14 tasks left): no change.
• July 2020 (9 of 24 new tasks): no change.
• August 2020 (23 of 53 new tasks): Three tasks closed (-3).
• September 2020 (14 of 33 new tasks): One task closed (-1).
• October 2020 (39 of 69 new tasks): Six tasks closed (-6).
• November 2020: 19 of 38 new tasks survived the month and remain open today (+38; -19)

The on-going month of December, has 19 unresolved tasks so far.

🎉 Thanks!

Thank you to everyone else who helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks!

Until next time,

– Timo Tijhof

👨🏻 Monsieur Gustave H.:

❝   The plot "thickens" as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor? ❞

Footnotes:

[1] Incident documentation 2020, Wikitech.
[2] Open tasks, Wikimedia-prod-error, Phabricator.
[3] Wikimedia incident stats, Krinkle, CodePen.
[4] Month-over-month, Production Excellence (spreadsheet).