Hi Joseph,
Thanks for this announcement.
I am looking for license information regarding the dumps, and I'm not finding it in the pages that you linked at [1] or [2]. The license that applies to text on Wikimedia sites is often CC-BY-SA 3.0, and the WMF Terms of Use at https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use do not appear to provide any exception for metadata. In the absence of a specific license, I think that the CC-BY-SA or other relevant licenses would apply to the metadata, and that the licensing information should be prominently included on relevant pages and in the dumps themselves.
What do you think?
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 4:28 PM Joseph Allemandou jallemandou@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Analytics People,
The Wikimedia Analytics Team is pleased to announce the release of the most complete dataset we have to date to analyze content and contributors metadata: Mediawiki History [1] [2].
Data is in TSV format, released monthly around the 3rd of the month usually, and every new release contains the full history of metadata.
The dataset contains an enhanced [3] and historified [4] version of user, page and revision metadata and serves as a base to Wiksitats API on edits, users and pages [5] [6].
We hope you will have as much fun playing with the data as we have building it, and we're eager to hear from you [7], whether for issues, ideas or usage of the data.
Analytically yours,
-- Joseph Allemandou (joal) (he / him) Sr Data Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/readme.html [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Edits/Mediawiki_hist... [3] Many pre-computed fields are present in the dataset, from edit-counts by user and page to reverts and reverted information, as well as time between events. [4] As accurate as possible historical usernames and page-titles (as well as user-groups and blocks) is available in addition to current values, and are provided in a denormalized way to every event of the dataset. [5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Wikistats_2 [6] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/?title=Mediawiki%20His... _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics