I'd be in favor of both. Maybe with a little tweak to the pathing:
/top/{project}/{access}/days/{days-in-the-past}
/top/{project}/{access}/range/{start}/{end}
with "days" or "range" maybe being earlier in the forward slash separated
spec if it doesn't read well semantically.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It wouldn't be too hard to offer both, but I'm thinking it might be
> confusing for a consumer. I think ultimately the decision should be up to
> the people using this data, because the use cases are fairly different for
> each form. If people ask for both, we'll do both.
>
> Leila, we'd love to have page_ids as well, but we'd have to block the
> release on a bigger effort to reliably mirror mediawiki databases in Hadoop
> for processing, so we'll probably punt on that for now. But we have more
> than many reasons to work on that sooner than later.
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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