[16:39:49] <Nemo_bis>	 halfak: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153146#2953019 fossil skeletons? but not very inspiring
[20:58:05] <milimetric>	 halfak / lzia: I have a 7 minute slot at metrics next week, I was going to present the edit reconstruction data, any desire to chime in from the research point of view?
[20:58:32] <halfak>	 I could say a few things if you like.  
[20:58:44] <halfak>	 I think neilpquinn would have some cool stuff to say too. 
[20:58:45] <milimetric>	 I can easily talk everyone's ears off forever, so it's up to you
[20:58:56] <milimetric>	 yeah, that'd be great
[20:59:00] <halfak>	 :D  Maybe I can just say "+1" after you're done. 
[20:59:17] <halfak>	 What might help with merit is to talk about how hard it used to be to do cross-wiki analysis. 
[20:59:37] <milimetric>	 ok, I can email you both a draft of my slides tomorrow and we can chat from there
[20:59:39] <milimetric>	 but food for thought:
[21:00:10] <milimetric>	 * we used to have to dig into the db for weeks to get answers, now we have a simple query to answer a lot of hard questions
[21:00:16] <halfak>	 Maybe just highlight that we have a "Wiki archaeology" page. 
[21:00:20] <neilpquinn>	 hmm, I'm definitely excited about the project, but I'm not sure what I would say.
[21:00:21] <milimetric>	 * what are some interesting questions
[21:00:40] <halfak>	 neilpquinn, how stoked are you to run a metric across N wikis?
[21:00:45] <milimetric>	 if you two think of interesting questions that you'd like to ask this data, that would be really great
[21:00:52] <neilpquinn>	 halfak: very :)
[21:01:09] <halfak>	 neilpquinn, with the current DB or with all revisions from all wikis combined?
[21:01:25] <milimetric>	 and if you want to build a couple of slides around some of those questions, I think that would explain the data best
[21:01:36] <halfak>	 milimetric, one story that would be really good would be Erik Z's work on looking for evidence of editor migrations. 
[21:01:41] <neilpquinn>	 I could talk about the fact that I've tried and been unable to calculate all the editor month metrics with just the DBs.
[21:01:54] <neilpquinn>	 anyway go to go but we can talk more.
[21:02:11] <milimetric>	 ok, I'll make drafts of those two things in the slides, will send tomorrow
[21:02:15] <halfak>	 neilpquinn, perfect story!
[21:02:21] <halfak>	 :D
[21:02:28] <milimetric>	 halfak: any detail on Erik's work there?
[21:02:43] <yuvipanda>	 Neil P. Quinn: you could also show off paws-internal while you do it :D
[21:02:47] <halfak>	 Not sure where he write it up. 
[21:03:05] <yuvipanda>	 (I've no context, just advertising)
[21:04:43] <milimetric>	 yuvipanda: for sure, there's another slot after mine, so if you want to blend the two announcements, I'm down.  But it might need more work / coordination than we can do today/tomorrow
[21:05:03] <yuvipanda>	 oh, do ignore me :D I was just saying things.
[21:05:09] <yuvipanda>	 is this the research showcase?
[21:08:05] <milimetric>	 yuvipanda: nah, metrics next week
[21:08:31] <yuvipanda>	 milimetric: oh, interesting. next week will be bad for me because I'll be flying at that time. Next month then
[21:40:09] <lzia>	 milimetric: just catching up on the discussion. You can make the work you did look very glamorous. and it really deserves it.
[21:40:22] <lzia>	 do send your slides, and some pointers for me to go through to think about it, milimetric.
[21:41:16] <lzia>	 I also agree with halfak that you should make it understandable to a broad audience why this work was hard and important.
[21:41:30] <lzia>	 looking forward to the slides.