WMF Projects/OWA

This is a WMF project page for the rollout of Open Web Analytics, as part of our broader effort to have better analytics tools at WMF. This effort is now over as we have determined that OWA did not suit our needs; see these notes.

Open Web Analytics Pilot Improve the analytics capabilities for Wikimedia Foundation Team members: Arthur Richards (developer), Nimish Gautam (developer), Peter Adams (developer), Howie Fung (product manager) Management: Rob Lanphier, Tomasz Finc

Feature justification

We need better analytics capabilities for purposes of usability testing, fundraising, A/B testing, etc

User requirements

Drafted Requirements

Specification

OWA Reqs

Software design document

• Different ways to deploy OWA

User interface design docs

Not applicable -- using stock OWA interface.

Schedule

• Deploying on new hardware
• Ecommerce integration
• Documentation
  • Educating banner creators about owa
• Security Audit
• Community engangemnt
• Ops sign off
• Deployment

Task management

• Develop Google Analytics tracking
• Develop E-Commerce API
• Spec Hardware
• Order Hardware
• Integrate with Puppet
• Setup Daemon
• Further develop visualization layer

Meeting Notes

• 08-27
• 09-02
• 09-09
• 09-17
• 09-22
• 09-30
• 10-08
• 10-15
• 10-21
• No meeting the week of the 25th.
• 11-05
• 11-09
• /OWA Meeting 2010-11-18
• /OWA Meeting 2010-12-03
• /OWA Meeting 2010-12-10
• /OWA Meeting 2010-12-22
• wrapup/postmortem notes, summer 2011