[Labs-l] Failure to support database dumps on labs

John phoenixoverride at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 04:51:45 UTC 2015


I thought I included the link.... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47646
is for the two year old ticket. (that should make context a little clearer)

Dan the basic dumps from dumps.wikimedia.org is all that I need, if you
take a look at the path I provided the dumps for

20150112
20150204
20150205

are all missing.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Sorry to hear, John.  While I'm not ops, is there anything I can help with
> to get your immediate need filled?  What would you do with the dump?  Is
> labsdb a good alternative or do you already have scripts?  Do you use
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ ?  Are the dumps you need not there?  I know
> that site's experiencing some rate limiting but that's simply a budget
> issue.
>
> I'm on the analytics team and one of my goals is to make datasets and raw
> data publicly available, so I appreciate your perspective and I'm sorry in
> advance if I can't help.
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking at a ticket filed almost two years ago for labs to support
>> the -latest format that the toolserver had, and guess what? Zero progress
>> has been made.
>>
>> This is getting sad, when labs was created it was supposed to be a
>> replacement and improvement on the toolserver, yet a basic feature of
>> running tools on database dumps has yet to be implemented,
>>
>> So knowing that, I got a request to run a database scan today. I took a
>> look at /public/dumps/public/enwiki to figure out the path to the most
>> current dump. Guess what? we don't have it on labs. The most current dump
>> for enwiki is from last year.... /public/dumps/public/enwiki/20141208/
>>
>> Something needs to happen, key, basic functionality of the toolserver is
>> still missing, its not rocket science, yet ops has consistently failed to
>> provide needed functionality in this area, filing tickets gets me nowhere,
>> so the real question here is why is this still an issue and who do I need
>> to call in order to get things resolved?
>>
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