cc-ing Analytics list and Ariel who maintains dumps.
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 > > > > > > > > >
_______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
