FYI that there is a phabricator task to load legacy pagecounts by article to AQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173720
That task arose from a discussion on this mailing list mid-last year: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04349.html https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04350.html Cheers, Scott On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter: > > Do submit a phabricator tasks with your request, it'll be easier to follow > on it than it is via e-mail. Our backlog: https://phabricator. > wikimedia.org/tag/analytics/ > > I assume you know that per article views are available since 2015, a way > to see those: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/ > > Per project views are available since early on, in either downloadable > files or programatic form: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/ > AQS/Legacy_Pagecounts > > Thanks, > > Nuria > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Peter Meissner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Like dumps on article-day level? That would be already super awesome much >> better than the current state. >> >> Best, Peter >> >> Am 22.02.2018 22:23 schrieb "Dan Andreescu" <[email protected]>: >> >>> Peter, the data you mention here is quite large, and storage is cheap >>> but not free. For now, we don't have capacity to serve that kind of >>> timespan from the API, but we will work to improve the dumps version so >>> it's more comprehensive. >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Peter Meissner < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear List-eners, >>>> >>>> >>>> I write in to argue the case for an Wikipedia effort to make something >>>> like stats.grok.se (page views per day per article from 2007 onwards) >>>> available again. >>>> >>>> >>>> I am author of the first R-package that was providing easy access to >>>> pageview counts by accessing the stats.grok.se service and translating >>>> the it into need little R data frames. >>>> >>>> Since stats.grok.se is gone somebody writes in once a month - mostly >>>> from academia - asking about the status of page view data for the time >>>> before late 2015 - counts, per article, per day. To underline this further: >>>> the R pageviews package written by one of your former colleagues has over >>>> 7000 downloads within 2 years while my package has 14000 within 4 years >>>> (which are conservative numbers because they stem from one particular CRAN >>>> mirror only). >>>> >>>> I made some efforts to reconstruct the service that stats.grok.se was >>>> providing but well it's not a trivial endeavour as far as I can see (BIG >>>> data, demanding some computing time and storage resources and bandwidth, >>>> and some thinking about how to re-arrange and aggregate the data so it can >>>> be queried and served efficiently - not to mention that the data is raw >>>> meaning it needs some proper cleaning up before using, also hosting will >>>> need some resources, ...) - and so my efforts have gone nowhere . >>>> >>>> >>>> Would it not be nice if Wikipedia could jump in and support research >>>> by going the whole mile and making those page counts available? >>>> >>>> In regard to the prioritizing - I am sure you have a long backlog - I >>>> would argue that this is something that really is a multiplier thing. It >>>> enables a lot of people to start researching. Daily page counts are not >>>> that fancy but without them people are simply blocked. They cannot start >>>> because they cant even get a basic idea about what was the general article >>>> popularity for a given day. >>>> >>>> >>>> Best Peter >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> PS.: I would be willing to put in some time to help you folks in any >>>> way I can. >>>> >>>> >>>> 2018-02-22 21:56 GMT+01:00 Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> My view had been informed by the documentation at >>>>>> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hourly page views per article for around 30 million article titles >>>>>>> (Sept 2013) in around 800+ Wikimedia wikis. Repackaged (with extreme >>>>>>> shrinkage, without losing granularity), corrected, reformatted. Daily >>>>>>> files >>>>>>> and two monthly files (see notes below). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regarding the claim that pagecounts-ez has data back to when >>>>>> wikimedia started tracking pageviews, I'll point out another error in the >>>>>> documentation that may have led to that view. The documentation claims >>>>>> that >>>>>> data is available from 2007 onward: >>>>>> >>>>>> From 2007 to May 2015: derived from Domas' pagecount/projectcount >>>>>>> files >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> However, if you check out the actual files ( >>>>>> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/), you'll see >>>>>> that the pagecounts only go back to late 2011. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ah, yes, but the projectcount files go back to 2007-12, that's where >>>>> that confusion comes from, we should clarify or generate the old data. >>>>> I'm >>>>> not sure whether this is easy, but I think it's fairly straightforward and >>>>> I've opened a task for it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188041 >>>>> (we have a lot of work in our backlog, though, so we probably won't be >>>>> able >>>>> to get to this for a bit). >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Analytics mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Analytics mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Analytics mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Dr Scott A. 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