strangely the enwiki dump is complete, but not a lot of the other
wikis (such as enwiktionary) that are a lot smaller
usually they're finished after a few days
something going wrong with the dump script?
I've been using the monthly page view summaries from pagecounts-ez. Now on https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/ it says:
"NOTE: This dataset has had some problems and we are no longer generating new data, since September 2020. We are phasing it out in favor of Pageviews Complete... When it's finished we will announce it widely and explain how to migrate."
Is the announcement and explanation available somewhere. I'm having problems because
1. The "totals" files, such as https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/pagecounts-2020-08-v…, which are of the order of 500Mb per month seem to have no equivalents in the new pageview complete dump archives. The monthly files at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageview_complete/monthly/2020/2020-08/ are 10x larger (and I can't find any description of what the "automated" "user" and "spider" files represent, although I can guess)
2. If I download (say) https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageview_complete/monthly/2020/2020-08/pa…, and peek at the file using bzless, it seems to contain lots of binary characters: it's not clear to me what the format is, or how to decode it. Is there any information online to help me?
Thanks for any pointers that might help.
Greetings XML Dump users and contributors!
This is your automatic monthly Dumps FAQ update email. This update
contains figures for the 20210701 full revision history content run.
We are currently dumping 941 projects in total.
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Stats for azwikisource on date 20210701
Total size of page content dump files for articles, current content only:
54,945,209
Total size of page content dump files for all pages, current content only:
62,037,845
Total size of page content dump files for all pages, all revisions:
349,972,631
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Stats for enwiki on date 20210701
Total size of page content dump files for articles, current content only:
84,219,557,413
Total size of page content dump files for all pages, current content only:
185,886,341,450
Total size of page content dump files for all pages, all revisions:
23,026,883,007,314
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Your friendly Wikimedia Dump Info Collector