No, the output format of http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ will stay the same. Best, Diederik
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
Just to clarify, will this affect the stats at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ ? Changing the format of that will probably break third party scripts. -- -bawolff
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Diederik van Liere dvanliere@wikimedia.org wrote:
Apologies for crossposting
Heya,
The Analytics Team is planning to deploy "tab as field delimiter" to replace the current space as fielddelimiter on the varnish/squid/nginx servers. We would like to do this on February 1st. The reason for this change is that we need to have a consistent number of fields in each webrequest log line. Right now, some fields contain spaces and that
require
a lot of post-processing cleanup and slows down the generation of
reports.
What is affected and maintained by Analytics
- udp-filter already has support for the tab character
- webstatscollector: we compiled a new version of filter to add support
for
the tab character
- wikistats: we will fix the scripts on an ongoing basis.
- udp2log: we have a patch ready for inserting sequence numbers separated
by tab.
In particular, I would like to have feedback to three questions:
Are there important reasons not to use tab as field delimiter?
Are there important pieces of logging that expect a space instead of a
tab and that need to be fixed and that I did not mention in this email?
- Is February 1st a good date to deploy this change? (Assuming that all
preps are finished)
Best,
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