> although Erik Zachte might have looked at API usage in the past
No, I have not looked into this.
Even when online requests are lower by 1% and API requests on the rise with 1% rather than 10% there might be an inherent multiplier at work.
I mean one API request could lead to many article views via apps.
Some smartphone/tablet apps provide offline access to our full content base. These probably all use the dumps.
But some apps provide content specific topics, these might use the API for navigation or even collect all raw content per page, rather than via rendered html.
Erik
From: analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Diederik van Liere
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Subject: Re: [Analytics] MediaWiki API metrics of Wikimedia sites?
This hasn't been studied yet AFAIK, although Erik Zachte might have looked at API usage in the past. We could analyse the number of API requests from the sampled1:1000 webrequest stream. What type of metrics are you particularly interested in?
D
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Wikimedia content can be used out of Wikimedia servers through the MediaWiki API. For instance, we can see Wikimedia content in various web services and mobile apps.
Do we have any metrics about the API requests we are getting in Wikimedia servers?
Yesterday a developer asked me (for the sake of discussion) how would we feel if the traffic in Wikimedia servers would decrease 1% while the content served through our API would grow 10%. I found the question very interesting, and made me wonder what do we know about our API usage.
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Quim Gil
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