2-3 weeks? What are you doing, taking /vacations at Christmas/? Unacceptable!
More seriously: the work on the API thus far - the data that has been moved in, the responsiveness around bug reports, the intuitive nature of the interface from a client library POV - has been fantastic. I hope you all enjoy your break :). I am honoured to call you coworkers. On 14 December 2015 at 18:51, Madhumitha Viswanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 Oliver - User agents tagged with WikimediaBot are tagged as bot - I do > agree that our documentation on this can be approved, I'll update the > Webrequest and Pageview tables docs to reflect this. > > The backfilling jobs for May-July have been paused at the moment, the plan > is to resume backfilling in 2-3 weeks. > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey Felix, >> >> To answer some questions in order: >> >> 1. Bots are automated systems with a Wikimedia specific tag >> (WikimediaBot, iirc) in their user agent. We don't expect this to be >> widely adopted yet because it hasn't been widely advertised. The >> standard itself is very new, which is probably why you don't see any >> traffic referring to it in August. >> 2. The idea is to have traffic no earlier than May 2015 - because >> that's when the new pageview definition was instrumented (and so the >> earliest point we have data from) but that doesn't mean all the data >> has been loaded in yet. >> >> On 14 December 2015 at 18:39, Felix J. Scholz >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dear All: >> > >> > Maybe this question is a little bit too simple, but I did not >> > immediately >> > find the answer in the docs. >> > >> > How does the API differentiate between the two user agents spider and >> > bot? >> > >> > I'm asking because for some articles, there seems to be no bot traffic >> > at >> > all, including the main page in August: >> > >> > https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/bot/Main_Page/daily/20150801/20150901 >> > >> > --- >> > Another, unrelated question: >> > By my recollection, I read somewhere that the data available via the API >> > dates back to sometime in May of 2015. However, when doing queries >> > today, >> > the API only returned data starting on August 1, 2015. Is that correct? >> > >> > Best, >> > Felix >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Analytics mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Count Logula >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > -- > --Madhu :) > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
