Media List download in Topic Mapper is not reflecting story search filter

[ebndulue]

I applied the filter of a subtopic then also used a story search filter. The story list appears to be updating correctly, but the media list is not. (It says that there are thousands of stories published by the top source, when there are less than 50 in the results once both filters are applied).

[rahulbot]

Can you give us the topic, subtopic, and story search you noticed this with? I'm having trouble reproducing it.

[ebndulue]

Topic = https://topics.mediacloud.org/#/topics/2421/summary Subtopic is the only existing one - Conversations:Conversations The story search query is ("Red Nose Day" OR "RedNoseDay")

Thanks!

[rahulbot]

Thanks, that helped me track this down. I think what is happening here is that the media lists are respecting both filters, but the aggregated data about the media source is ignoring the search query filter. This means the media CSV downloaded's stories, media inlinks, outlinks, and Facebook Shares columns are all wrong if you have a story-search filter in place. The list of media sources is right though (it is respecting both the search query filter and the subtopic filter.

Details

With both filters in place:

• story list download CSV returns 22 stories
• media list download CSV returns 18 media sources - I verified they are the ones those 22 stories are from; but Washington Post says it has 3168 stories

With just the subtopic in place:

• media CSV download has 6437 media sources listed - Washington Post says it has 3168 stories

With no filters in place:

• Washington Post says it has 3,573 stories

[rahulbot]

Proposal: add text like this above the media table if there is a story search filter in place:

"Warning - the results below are easy to mis-read. The media story counts, inlink counts, outline counts, and shares all ignore your story search. For instance, the stories count for a media source in the table below is the number of stories from this media source in this timespan and subtopic, NOT the number of stories in this timespan and subtopic matching your story search filter. If you want to recompute these numbers turn your story search into a new subtopic."

@AnissaPierre can you take a pass at producing better text for this?

[AnissaPierre]

Hows this?

 Please be advised: the media story counts, inlink counts, outline counts, and shares do not reflect your filter! These      numbers reflect all of the stories from the source within your timeframe and topic/subtopic. If you want to see             these numbers for your filter, turn your filter into a new subtopic.

On Dec 6, 2018, at 3:53 PM, rahulbot notifications@github.com wrote:

Warning - the results below are easy to mis-read. The media story counts, inlink counts, outline counts, and shares all ignore your story search. For instance, the stories count for a media source in the table below is the number of stories from this media source in this timespan and subtopic, NOT the number of stories in this timespan and subtopic matching your story search filter. If you want to recompute these numbers turn your story search into a new subtopic

[rahulbot]

Thx - will integrate!

[rahulbot]

This warning shows up above any media table in topic mapper if you have a story search filter in place: