Especially with Wikidata we expect a rather bigger usage of the API, as the
machine-readable data can be accessed through the API instead of the HTML
page.
Even though we do not need to analyze it right away, I would love to know
whether the raw access data is stored or aggregated anywhere?
2013/7/7 Erik Zachte <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
although Erik
Zachte might have looked at API usage in the past****
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No, I have not looked into this. ****
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Even when online requests are lower by 1% and API requests on the rise
with 1% rather than 10% there might be an inherent multiplier at work.****
I mean one API request could lead to many article views via apps. ****
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Some smartphone/tablet apps provide offline access to our full content
base. These probably all use the dumps.****
But some apps provide content specific topics, these might use the API for
navigation or even collect all raw content per page, rather than via
rendered html.****
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Erik****
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*From:* analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
analytics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Diederik van Liere
*Sent:* Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:27 PM
*To:* A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has
an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
*Subject:* Re: [Analytics] MediaWiki API metrics of Wikimedia sites?****
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This hasn't been studied yet AFAIK, although Erik Zachte might have looked
at API usage in the past. We could analyse the number of API requests from
the sampled1:1000 webrequest stream. What type of metrics are you
particularly interested in?****
D****
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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:****
Wikimedia content can be used out of Wikimedia servers through the
MediaWiki API. For instance, we can see Wikimedia content in various web
services and mobile apps.
Do we have any metrics about the API requests we are getting in Wikimedia
servers?
Yesterday a developer asked me (for the sake of discussion) how would we
feel if the traffic in Wikimedia servers would decrease 1% while the
content served through our API would grow 10%. I found the question very
interesting, and made me wonder what do we know about our API usage.
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