Hi Nuria et al., I’m glad to hear that our downloads did not have anything to do with the site going down. Now that things are back up and running, it looks like everything is working again on our end.
Thank you for the help! John and Gonzalo John C. Mittermeier St Catherine’s College Manor Road Oxford OX1 3UJ Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: jcmittermeier > On Mar 2, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Thank you Ariel, if you could ping analytics@ in the future also it will be > great. > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > It is back up and was announced so via email to the various lists. I'm sorry > I didn't think to add analytics on those, I did spam several lists already. > As the initial mail said, you can pick up anything a day or more old from one > of our mirrors, or from ms1001.wikimedia.org <http://ms1001.wikimedia.org/> > during outages like this. > > Ariel > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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 > <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] > <mailto:[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] > > <mailto:[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] > >> <mailto:[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/ > >>> <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/ > >>> <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 > >>> <http://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] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Analytics mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics> > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics> > >
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