We're currently tracking a few metrics for [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News | Tech News ]], like [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Readability | readability metrics ]] for every issue, and [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Subscribers | subscribers metrics ]].
This process is currently manual and cumbersome, which explains why they're only updated every few months (or when someone [[ https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Tech_news | needs a pretty chart ]]).
It would be really nice to have a tool (probably in Tool Labs) to generate the metrics automatically on a more frequent basis. A stand-alone tool would also make it easier to generate up-to-date charts automatically.
This would also be an opportunity to start tracking and charting other metrics, like the top [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Word_cloud_of_Tech_News_contributors.svg | contributors ]] and [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Word_cloud_of_Tech_News_translators.svg | translators ]] (this was only done once). The Translate API also provides access to interesting data about the translations available (and their completion rate) that could be analyzed and charted; at the moment, doing so manually is prohibitively time-consuming.
Timely tracking and charting of those metrics would make it easier to identify trends, issues and successes.