Hi Dan,
Thanks for reaching out. I would definitely be interested in the full data set. How big is
the file set and how would we obtain it?
Thanks,
Celeste
From: Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 8:26 AM
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in
Wikipedia and analytics. <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Celeste A Manughian-Peter <celeste.manughian-peter(a)aero.org>
Subject: Re: [Analytics] WMF API update
Celeste, thanks for writing to the list. Would you prefer a full dataset instead of
querying the API? We are planning on releasing the data behind the API as a set of flat
files, and it seems like that would be more useful for consumers like you. Let us know if
that's the case, and if not we'd appreciate more detail about how you're
accessing the data.
Thank you!
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM Marcel Ruiz Forns
<mforns@wikimedia.org<mailto:mforns@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hi Celeste,
Thanks for pinging us about that!
I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to about 367 days’
worth of data per request.
The limit on the time range length was placed on purpose to avoid receiving very long
requests.
Requests of several years worth of data can acquire too much of the API server power and
block other requests.
will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges?
Yes, please, sorry for the inconvenience!
Cheers!
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:01 PM Celeste A Manughian-Peter
<celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org>>
wrote:
Hello!
I had set up some endpoints from the wikimedia API a while back and it has been running
smoothly in my project since then. I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit
the date range to about 367 days’ worth of data per request.
For example:
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ…
vs.
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ…
Is there still a way to get longer periods of data through this endpoint or will I just
have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges?
Thanks a bunch!
Celeste
Celeste Manughian-Peter
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department
The Aerospace Corporation
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