+1 Adam

Also, maybe *top-articles* instead of *top*, to avoid naming collision in
the future?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <dandreescu@wikimedia
>>>> .org> 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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