I'm chiming in here about another API that is being built at WMF that may
be somewhat related.
On the Editor Engagement Experiments team Dario Taraborelli and myself have
invested a good deal of effort in standardizing the way we gather user
metrics [1]. The initial aim was to have a set of well defined metrics
which could be used in the downstream analysis of experiments. It soon
became clear that we would need, in addition to these definitions, a
reproducible way to extract this data from the MediaWiki datastore. To
that end we've been working on a project [2] that does just that (pushed to
Gerrit also [3]), docs can be found at [4].
Further, this project has been deployed to our Wikimedia stats cluster
where it is hosted at [5]. This is still a development instance and thus
we cannot provide guarantees on it's uptime yet, and besides the project is
currently under htaccess. However, we're working toward the point of
having this tool more widely exposed in the coming weeks.
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Metrics
[2]
https://github.com/rfaulkner/E3_analysis
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=analytics/E3Analysis.git;a=summary
[4]
http://stat1.wikimedia.org/rfaulk/pydocs/_build/
[5]
http://metrics-api.wikimedia.org/
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I have started an RFC, putting down my initial
thoughts on how to make
Wikidata API more seamless with the core API.
The goal is to minimize execution time, bandwidth, and server load, while
making it play nicely with the rest of the action=query, allow for
continuations and multi-values data request capabilities.
For now I only looked at the wbgetentities, but the RFC will be updated
with the other modules. Please let me know what you think.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikidata_API
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