The former might be slightly easier to cache, and can be linked to / pulled
in statically, without a need to dynamically construct a URL. Would it be
hard to offer both?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's getting exciting. :-)
>
> I'd go with choice 2 since it gives more control to the user while
> offering what the user can get through choice 1 as well.
>
> Question: will we get page_ids or page_titles or both? It's good to have
> both.
>
> Leila
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone.  End of quarter is rapidly approaching and I wanted to ask a
>> quick question about one of the endpoints we want to push out.  We want to
>> let you ask "what are the top articles" but we're not sure how to structure
>> the URL so it's most useful to you.  Here are the choices:
>>
>> Choice 1. /top/{project}/{access}/{days-in-the-past}
>>
>> Example: top articles via all en.wikipedia sites for the past 30 days:
>> /top/en.wikipedia/all-access/30
>>
>>
>> Choice 2. /top/{project}/{access}/{start}/{end}
>>
>> Example: top articles via all en.wikipedia sites from June 12th, 2014 to
>> August 30th, 2015: /top/en.wikipedia/all-access/2014-06-12/2015-08-30
>>
>>
>> (in all of those,
>>
>> * {project} means en.wikipedia, commons.wikimedia, etc.
>> * {access} means access method as in desktop, mobile web, mobile app
>>
>> )
>>
>> Which do you prefer?  Would any other query style be useful?
>>
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