>Ellery and I have been talking about the idea of – at the very least – scheduling the generation of new dumps, if not exposing the data programmatically. Right now, I am afraid >this is not within my team's capacity and Analytics has a number of other high-priority areas to focus on. 

Right. Most of our work in the next couple quarters revolves around editing data, we need that to be in as good shape as pageview data is now in the near future so I think we will be able to take projects like this one again in probably couple quarters. 

I have created a phab task with your awesome use case. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134231

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey Thomas,

yes, I agree this dataset is really valuable (just looking at the sheer number of downloads  [1] and requests for similar data we've received). I can see the value of making it more easily accessible via an API. 

Ellery and I have been talking about the idea of – at the very least – scheduling the generation of new dumps, if not exposing the data programmatically. Right now, I am afraid this is not within my team's capacity and Analytics has a number of other high-priority areas to focus on. We were planning to talk to Joseph et al anyway and decide how to move forward (hi Joseph!), we'll report back on the lists as soon as this happens.

Dario

[1] https://figshare.altmetric.com/details/3707715

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:12 AM, Thomas Steiner <tomac@google.com> wrote:

Hi Dario,

This data is super interesting! How realistic is it that your team
make it available through the Wikimedia REST API [1]? I would then in
turn love to add it to Wikipedia Tools [2], just imagine how amazing
it would be to be able to ask a spreadsheet for…

  =WIKI{OUT|IN}BOUNDTRAFFIC("en:London", TODAY()-2, TODAY()-1)

…(or obviously the API respectively) and get the results back
immediately without the need to download a dump first. What do you
think?

Cheers,
Tom

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