I believe the dumps server was undergoing maintenance today. Last email I
saw was it was up and running again.

Ariel -- maybe cc this list (analytics-l) when you are announcing a
maintenance window?

thanks,

-Toby

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> cc-ing Analytics list and Ariel who maintains dumps.
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Gonzalo Diaz <[email protected]>
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>> Dear Nuria Ruiz,
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>> 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/
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>> I am writing because I am currently working on a research project which
>> would benefit from processing Wikipedia pagecount files.
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>> 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).
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>> Since this morning, however, we are no longer able to download the
>> pagecount files. Furthermore, the site dumps.wikimedia.org seems down.
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>> Hopefully, our downloads are not responsible for this. If they are,
>> however, we would like to apologise for the inconvenience.
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>> In any case, we would like to request permission to continue downloading
>> the raw pagecount files, as soon as the site is back online.
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>> I thank you very much for your time!
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>> Kindest regards,
>> Gonzalo Diaz
>> John Mittermeier
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