Just FYI, Ariel is probably not going to see this until the morning. But I can confirm that if there was maintenance being done, the server seems to not have come back up correctly.
Original Message
From: Bo Han
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 14:29
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
Reply To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
Cc: Ariel Glenn WMF; John Mittermeier; Gonzalo Diaz
Subject: Re: [Analytics] Requesting access to Wikimedia Pageview Dumps for Research
Hi,
I noticed the maintenance email was announced at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-March/001262.html
but it'd be helpful to CC this list as well.
Bo
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I believe the dumps server was undergoing maintenance today. Last email I
> saw was it was up and running again.
>
> Ariel -- maybe cc this list (analytics-l) when you are announcing a
> maintenance window?
>
> thanks,
>
> -Toby
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> cc-ing Analytics list and Ariel who maintains dumps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Gonzalo Diaz <gonzalo.diaz@cs.ox.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Nuria Ruiz,
>>>
>>> My name is Gonzalo Diaz, and I am a PhD student of Computer Science at
>>> the University of Oxford. You can see my profile here:
>>> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/gonzalo.diaz/
>>>
>>> I am writing because I am currently working on a research project which
>>> would benefit from processing Wikipedia pagecount files.
>>>
>>> On Monday, 29 February 2016, we began downloading pagecount files from
>>> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/. For the next 48 hours we
>>> managed to download ~15 months of raw pagecount files, using 3 different
>>> computers, and 3 instances of "wget" on each computer (for a total of 9
>>> concurrent downloads at any given moment).
>>>
>>> Since this morning, however, we are no longer able to download the
>>> pagecount files. Furthermore, the site dumps.wikimedia.org seems down.
>>>
>>> Hopefully, our downloads are not responsible for this. If they are,
>>> however, we would like to apologise for the inconvenience.
>>>
>>> In any case, we would like to request permission to continue downloading
>>> the raw pagecount files, as soon as the site is back online.
>>>
>>> I thank you very much for your time!
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>> Gonzalo Diaz
>>> John Mittermeier
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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