Is there any hope for stats to be fixed and run again
?
The Wikipedia archives for some major languages have been restructured (*),
in order to reduce database size. The conversion took many weeks, during
which no new dumps were made. About a week ago dumps in the new format
became available. Now the stats scripts need a non-trivial update.
Unfortunately I have been very busy lately. I hope to start working on this
within a week or so.
By the way: I'll probably need to turn away from the dumps towards direct
SQL access after the major database scheme change planned for the next major
MediaWiki release. This will probably mean the stats job should become
restartable and data should be collected incrementally. As I can only work
seriously on that after the databases shuffle has been completed, or a good
test set has become available, expect a similar outage by then.
Erik Zachte
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(*) 10 article revisions are grouped together, compressed and stored in one
database entry, other 9 entries contain a pointer to this entry.
Brion and Tim talked about this in Berlin, and explained this was critical
to keep database server up and running, as there was only free disk space
left for a week or two and no more open slots to plug in extra disks.