[Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

[Lars Aronsson]

Earlier, I wrote:

> Are visitor stats (as produced by Domas) safely archived 
> somewhere...?

As an experiment, I uploaded the files for December 2007 to the 
Internet Archive,
http://www.archive.org/details/wikipedia_visitor_stats_200712

It was the first time I uploaded something to IA, and since this 
was not sound or movies, it was put under "opensource books".
Even though I have a 100 Mbit/s connection, the FTP upload only 
got 2.5 Mbit/s (317 kB/s) and the entire upload took 12 hours.

Even though the pagecounts files (each covering one hour) are 
compressed, each one contains the same dictionary (article titles) 
and I think the total could be more efficiently compressed 
(without loss of any information) if they were unpacked and 
organized differently. I don't really have the time and energy to 
investigate this.

Now I would feel less frustrated if these are removed from my 
disk.

Should I continue to do this for the files for 2008, one batch per 
month? Or do you have any better ideas?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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