Visualize data we get from MediaWiki Wikimetrics reports generator tool

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MediaWiki doesn’t give much statistics out of the box. Some tried to make scripts that crawls MediaWiki API, but it doesn’t scale.

To solve this, the Wikimedia foundation created Wikimetrics which a tool go generate analytics reports based on the data MediaWiki generates (edits, roll back, etc). Wikimetrics does only one thing; generate reports and help create reports. The output is either JSON or CSV files.

To visualize they had multiple tools, including Limn that makes reportcard.wmflabs.org, but they have other projects for it.

See also

• Wikimedia Foundation dashiki
• Dashing
• Kibana Dashboard?
• Vega? Vega Tutorial

  References

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikimetrics

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Dropping the ball, we won’t use. Refer to webplatform/ops#177