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.
Depending on what you’re doing, http://stats.grok.se/ may also come in handy.

Best,
Dario

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From: Ashok Rao <raoashok@seas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Wikipedia Page views access
Date: June 18, 2015 at 5:53:12 PM GMT+2
To: dario@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/ – 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