On Sep 11, 2015, at 18:38, Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org> wrote:

+1 Adam

Also, maybe top-articles instead of top, to avoid naming collision in the future?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'd be in favor of both. Maybe with a little tweak to the pathing:

/top/{project}/{access}/days/{days-in-the-past}

/top/{project}/{access}/range/{start}/{end}

with "days" or "range" maybe being earlier in the forward slash separated spec if it doesn't read well semantically.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
It wouldn't be too hard to offer both, but I'm thinking it might be confusing for a consumer. I think ultimately the decision should be up to the people using this data, because the use cases are fairly different for each form. If people ask for both, we'll do both.

Leila, we'd love to have page_ids as well, but we'd have to block the release on a bigger effort to reliably mirror mediawiki databases in Hadoop for processing, so we'll probably punt on that for now. But we have more than many reasons to work on that sooner than later.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke@wikimedia.org> wrote:
The former might be slightly easier to cache, and can be linked to / pulled in statically, without a need to dynamically construct a URL. Would it be hard to offer both?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Leila Zia <leila@wikimedia.org> wrote:
It's getting exciting. :-)

I'd go with choice 2 since it gives more control to the user while offering what the user can get through choice 1 as well.

Question: will we get page_ids or page_titles or both? It's good to have both.

Leila

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone. End of quarter is rapidly approaching and I wanted to ask a quick question about one of the endpoints we want to push out. We want to let you ask "what are the top articles" but we're not sure how to structure the URL so it's most useful to you. Here are the choices:

Choice 1. /top/{project}/{access}/{days-in-the-past}

Example: top articles via all en.wikipedia sites for the past 30 days: /top/en.wikipedia/all-access/30

Choice 2. /top/{project}/{access}/{start}/{end}

Example: top articles via all en.wikipedia sites from June 12th, 2014 to August 30th, 2015: /top/en.wikipedia/all-access/2014-06-12/2015-08-30

(in all of those,

* {project} means en.wikipedia, commons.wikimedia, etc.
* {access} means access method as in desktop, mobile web, mobile app

)

Which do you prefer? Would any other query style be useful?

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