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On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Gonzalo Diaz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear Nuria Ruiz,
>
> My name is Gonzalo Diaz, and I am a PhD student of Computer Science at the
> University of Oxford. You can see my profile here:
> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/gonzalo.diaz/
>
> I am writing because I am currently working on a research project which
> would benefit from processing Wikipedia pagecount files.
>
> On Monday, 29 February 2016, we began downloading pagecount files from
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/. For the next 48 hours
> we managed to download ~15 months of raw pagecount files, using 3 different
> computers, and 3 instances of "wget" on each computer (for a total of 9
> concurrent downloads at any given moment).
>
> Since this morning, however, we are no longer able to download the
> pagecount files. Furthermore, the site dumps.wikimedia.org seems down.
>
> Hopefully, our downloads are not responsible for this. If they are,
> however, we would like to apologise for the inconvenience.
>
> In any case, we would like to request permission to continue downloading
> the raw pagecount files, as soon as the site is back online.
>
> I thank you very much for your time!
>
> Kindest regards,
> Gonzalo Diaz
> John Mittermeier
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