Just FYI, Ariel is probably not going to see this until the morning. But I can confirm that if there was maintenance being done, the server seems to not have come back up correctly.
Original Message From: Bo Han Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 14:29 To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. Reply To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. Cc: Ariel Glenn WMF; John Mittermeier; Gonzalo Diaz Subject: Re: [Analytics] Requesting access to Wikimedia Pageview Dumps for Research Hi, I noticed the maintenance email was announced at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2016-March/001262.html but it'd be helpful to CC this list as well. Bo On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Toby Negrin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
