Not an answer to the question, but a question of my own; will the
nature of the content being served still be present as /some/ field?
FWIW I've found it very helpful to be able to use webrequest_source to
trivially distinguish mobile and desktop requests.

On 11 December 2015 at 12:40, Andrew Otto <aotto@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Soon, we will be merging the mobile web cache requests with the text cache
> requests.  text caches will now serve requests for mobile web[1].
>
> This means that the webrequest_source=‘mobile’ partition in the webrequest
> table in Hive will soon be empty, and all data that was previously in it
> will be found in the webrequest_source=‘text’ partition.
>
> There are only 3 datasets that currently only use the
> webrequest_source=‘mobile’ partition:
>
> - /a/log/webrequest/archive/mobile
> - /a/log/webrequest/archive/5xx-mobile
> - /a/log/webrequest/archive/zero
>
> (These are paths on stat1002, but they also exist in HDFS.)
>
> These datasets originally came from udp2log, but since early last year they
> have been generated from Hadoop.  With the upcoming cache merge, these jobs
> will have to parse through all text requests, which will make Hadoop busier.
>
> Do we know if these are being used?  Would anyone be upset if we no longer
> generated these datasets?
>
> Thanks!
> -Andrew
>
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109286
>
>

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