I could not agree more. The API implementation has progressed remarkably well over the last few months.
Congrats to all involved! On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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