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: 1) Are there important reasons not to use tab as field delimiter? 2) 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? 3) Is February 1st a good date to deploy this change? (Assuming that all preps are finished) Best, Diederik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

No, the output format of http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ will stay the same.