The limits sound fair anyway, but I see external researchers (and even community members interested in historical data) using this tool to collect very long data series.

that’s correct, the original plan was to build an API. On Nov 1, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Well, Dario, it was actually someone at WMF. But I don't think that should matter much. Let's do this as a compromise: If someone runs an hourly report longer than a month and a daily report longer than a year, we give them a warning telling them what's going to happen. If they say OK, we have to assume they know what they're doing and they really need the data. I know I accidentally ran a really long query once, so we'd at least guard against that. Like I said though, even that crazy long query last night didn't cause any huge problems. It just used up a bit of memory and slowed access to the wikimetrics server for a few hours. There are a couple of simple monitoring, tracing, and backup improvements I could make in order to alleviate that as well. So if it keeps happening despite the warning, I'll just do that. Dan On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimetrics mailing list Wikimetrics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics