Hi Celeste, Thanks for pinging us about that! I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to The limit on the time range length was placed on purpose to avoid receiving very long requests. Requests of several years worth of data can acquire too much of the API server power and block other requests. will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges? Yes, please, sorry for the inconvenience! Cheers! On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:01 PM Celeste A Manughian-Peter < celeste.manughian-peter(a)aero.org&gt; wrote: -- *Marcel Ruiz Forns** (he/him)* Analytics Developer @ Wikimedia Foundation

Hi Dan, Thanks for reaching out. I would definitely be interested in the full data set. How big is the file set and how would we obtain it? Thanks, Celeste From: Dan Andreescu &lt;dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 8:26 AM To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. &lt;analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: Celeste A Manughian-Peter &lt;celeste.manughian-peter(a)aero.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Analytics] WMF API update Celeste, thanks for writing to the list. Would you prefer a full dataset instead of querying the API? We are planning on releasing the data behind the API as a set of flat files, and it seems like that would be more useful for consumers like you. Let us know if that's the case, and if not we'd appreciate more detail about how you're accessing the data. Thank you! On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org<mailto:mforns@wikimedia.org>> wrote: Hi Celeste, Thanks for pinging us about that! I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to about 367 days’ worth of data per request. The limit on the time range length was placed on purpose to avoid receiving very long requests. Requests of several years worth of data can acquire too much of the API server power and block other requests. will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges? Yes, please, sorry for the inconvenience! Cheers! On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:01 PM Celeste A Manughian-Peter <celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org>> wrote: Hello! I had set up some endpoints from the wikimedia API a while back and it has been running smoothly in my project since then. I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to about 367 days’ worth of data per request. For example: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ… vs. https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ… Is there still a way to get longer periods of data through this endpoint or will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges? Thanks a bunch! Celeste Celeste Manughian-Peter Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department The Aerospace Corporation 310.336.6928 Celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:Celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org> _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics -- Marcel Ruiz Forns (he/him) Analytics Developer @ Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

Dan, Apologies for the late reply. I understand, we're mostly just interested in en.wikipedia, not segmented by any year. Our work involves building a tool that analyzes trending technologies, with Wikipedia as one source of data. Best, Celeste ________________________________ From: Dan Andreescu &lt;dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 10:59 AM To: Celeste A Manughian-Peter Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. Subject: Re: [Analytics] WMF API update We're still working out how to publish the dataset, I should have been more precise. We estimate the whole set would be something on the order of tens of GB. So one option might be to split it by wiki, and that's why it's nice to have a use case like yours. Would any particular split like by wiki, by year, etc. help with your analysis? And if you could provide other details about your work, that'd be useful for us. On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:37 PM Celeste A Manughian-Peter <celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org>> wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for reaching out. I would definitely be interested in the full data set. How big is the file set and how would we obtain it? Thanks, Celeste From: Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org<mailto:dandreescu@wikimedia.org>> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 8:26 AM To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. <analytics@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:analytics@lists.wikimedia.org>> Cc: Celeste A Manughian-Peter <celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org>> Subject: Re: [Analytics] WMF API update Celeste, thanks for writing to the list. Would you prefer a full dataset instead of querying the API? We are planning on releasing the data behind the API as a set of flat files, and it seems like that would be more useful for consumers like you. Let us know if that's the case, and if not we'd appreciate more detail about how you're accessing the data. Thank you! On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns@wikimedia.org<mailto:mforns@wikimedia.org>> wrote: Hi Celeste, Thanks for pinging us about that! I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to about 367 days’ worth of data per request. The limit on the time range length was placed on purpose to avoid receiving very long requests. Requests of several years worth of data can acquire too much of the API server power and block other requests. will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges? Yes, please, sorry for the inconvenience! Cheers! On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:01 PM Celeste A Manughian-Peter <celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org>> wrote: Hello! I had set up some endpoints from the wikimedia API a while back and it has been running smoothly in my project since then. I noticed the edits endpoint has been updated to limit the date range to about 367 days’ worth of data per request. For example: https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ… vs. https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/edits/per-page/en.wikipedia/Europ… Is there still a way to get longer periods of data through this endpoint or will I just have to request sequences of the shorter date ranges? Thanks a bunch! Celeste Celeste Manughian-Peter Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department The Aerospace Corporation 310.336.6928 Celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org<mailto:Celeste.manughian-peter@aero.org> _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics -- Marcel Ruiz Forns (he/him) Analytics Developer @ Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics