Forwarding a note from Ashok Rao (cc’ed), can anyone comment on the dumps server returning
503s?
Ashok – we don’t have yet an in-house API to retrieve pageview data, but the Analytics
team is working on one: see this thread
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44259#1341010>.
Depending on what you’re doing,
http://stats.grok.se/ <http://stats.grok.se/> may
also come in handy.
Best,
Dario
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ashok Rao <raoashok(a)seas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Wikipedia Page views access
Date: June 18, 2015 at 5:53:12 PM GMT+2
To: dario(a)wikimedia.org
Hi Dario,
Good morning. I'm a student at the University of Pennsylvania and I've been
trying to perform a few analyses based on Wikipedia page views data. I've written a
script that grabs data from the main dump site –
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/> – but run into many sporadic 503
errors (sometimes with the download link, other times with the main page itself). I
noticed some of this data might be available directly on Wikimedia servers that can be
utilized for research purposes.
I was hoping I could get access to this and appreciate your help.
Best,
Ashok
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Ashok M. Rao
The Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Pennsylvania | Class of '17