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. > > > > > > 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 > >
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