2-3 weeks? What are you doing, taking /vacations at Christmas/? Unacceptable!

More seriously: the work on the API thus far - the data that has been
moved in, the responsiveness around bug reports, the intuitive nature
of the interface from a client library POV - has been fantastic. I
hope you all enjoy your break :). I am honoured to call you coworkers.

On 14 December 2015 at 18:51, Madhumitha Viswanathan

<mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> +1 Oliver - User agents tagged with WikimediaBot are tagged as bot - I do
> agree that our documentation on this can be approved, I'll update the
> Webrequest and Pageview tables docs to reflect this.
>
> The backfilling jobs for May-July have been paused at the moment, the plan
> is to resume backfilling in 2-3 weeks.
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Felix,
>>
>> To answer some questions in order:
>>
>> 1. Bots are automated systems with a Wikimedia specific tag
>> (WikimediaBot, iirc) in their user agent. We don't expect this to be
>> widely adopted yet because it hasn't been widely advertised. The
>> standard itself is very new, which is probably why you don't see any
>> traffic referring to it in August.
>> 2. The idea is to have traffic no earlier than May 2015 - because
>> that's when the new pageview definition was instrumented (and so the
>> earliest point we have data from) but that doesn't mean all the data
>> has been loaded in yet.
>>
>> On 14 December 2015 at 18:39, Felix J. Scholz
>> <felixjacobscholz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear All:
>> >
>> > Maybe this question is a little bit too simple, but I did not
>> > immediately
>> > find the answer in the docs.
>> >
>> > How does the API differentiate between the two user agents spider and
>> > bot?
>> >
>> > I'm asking because for some articles, there seems to be no bot traffic
>> > at
>> > all, including the main page in August:
>> >
>> > https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/bot/Main_Page/daily/20150801/20150901
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Another, unrelated question:
>> > By my recollection, I read somewhere that the data available via the API
>> > dates back to sometime in May of 2015. However, when doing queries
>> > today,
>> > the API only returned data starting on August 1, 2015. Is that correct?
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Felix
>> >
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