Caitlin, it sounds to me like you might benefit from knowing where the pageviews come from (in your case Australia and New Zealand). We have been trying to release that data but it's much more sensitive so we have to be very careful how we aggregate. If you think that would be useful, you can always post a task in phabricator and try to find someone who has access to our internal cluster to run some specific queries for you. In that case, knowing exactly what you want and exactly what format you want it in would be helpful.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Caitlin.Gardner@csiro.au wrote:

Hi Dan,

The aim of our project is to determine whether we can establish a prediction technique for high impact (not high risk) species before they enter Australia and New Zealand. We are using data for species of 18 industries that have already entered and are high or low impact species (at this stage removing moderate impact). Monthly pageviews going back further than May 2015 would be useful (or even daily pageviews, but monthly would suffice). I should be able to use this response for my analysis. Pageview data may only show us high risk pest species - but it is all worth an investigation for us.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the methods used to access the older data - but the links you have all sent me will be useful and if I decide I need more data, I can try those methods myself.

Thank you all for your help! I should be okay from here.

Cheers, Caitlin

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:50:11 -0500 From: Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." analytics@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Analytics] Data collection Message-ID: <CA+aepCRqZ9YwHPCdo-1F-2uF-Vy3OiBZj= PjCD-MturFy0qyVA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi Caitlin,

Using the python client for the pageview API ( https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwviews), you could do:

from mwviews.api import PageviewsClient p = PageviewsClient() p.article_views('en.wikipedia',

['Abacarus_hystrix','Acarus_siro','Aceria_tosichella','Acyrthosiphon_pisum','Ahasverus_advena','Anthrenus_flavipes','Aphis_craccivora','Arhopalus','Balaustium_medicagoense','Bemisia_tabaci','Brevicoryne_brassicae','Bruchus','Ceratitis_capitata','Cicadulina','Cryptolestes','Daktulosphaira_vitifoliae','Delia','Ephestia_elutella','Ephestia_kuehniella','Etiella_behrii','Frankliniella_occidentalis','Frankliniella','Henosepilachna_vigintioctopunctata','Heteronychus_arator','Lachesilla_quercus','Lasioderma_serricorne','Liposcelis_bostrychophila','Macrosiphum_euphorbiae','Marchalina_hellenica','Myzus_persicae','Naupactus','Nezara_viridula','Oligonychus_ununguis','Oryzaephilus_surinamensis','Panonychus_ulmi','Penthaleus','Pieris_rapae','Piezodorus','Plodia_interpunctella','Plutella_xylostella','Rhopalosiphon','rhopalosiphum_maidis','Rhopalosiphum_padi','Rhyzopertha_dominica','Sirex_noctilio','Sitophilus_granarius','Sitophilus_oryzae','Sitotroga_cerealella','Sminthurus_viridis','Spodoptera_exempta','Stegobium_paniceum','Tetranychus','Thrips_palmi','Thrips','Tribolium_castaneum','Tribolium_confusum','Trogoderma_granarium','Trogoderma'], start='20150501')

Some of the articles in your list don't exist on en.wikipedia (like 'Frankliniella') but for what exists this returns the views as far back as we have them. When we're done filling up the API we'll have data back to May 2015, but right now it only goes to August. If you need it back further, you have to parse the dumps as others have said. I'm curious why you need the older data, it's interesting to us as we try to figure out what else to expose through the API. Would monthly pageviews be just as good?

I attached the result of that query here in JSON format