Glad to be helpful!😁
It is interesting that, contrary to my predictions, number of visitors to
wikipediatrends.com and downloads did not drop when API became available. I
am wondering if stats.grok.se notice significant drop.
Alex

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> That's very useful, Alex, thanks!  I guess those requests would need to be
> covered by dumps anyway, since we only have data back to 2015.  I'll ping
> Henrik too.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it make sense to ask Henrik (stats.grok.se) for his download
>> stats.
>> We at wikipediatrends.com usually receive < 5 request/month for full
>> data (from 2008).
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Pageview API consumers,
>>>
>>> We would like to plan storage capacity for our pageview API cluster.
>>> Right now, with a reliable RAID setup, we can keep *18 months* of
>>> data.  If you'd like to query further back than that, you can download dump
>>> files (which we'll make easier to use with python utilities).
>>>
>>> What do you think?  Will you need more than 18 months of data?  If so,
>>> we need to add more nodes when we get to that point, and that costs money,
>>> so we want to check if there is a real need for it.
>>>
>>> Another option is to start degrading the resolution for older data (only
>>> keep weekly or monthly for data older than 1 year for example).  If you
>>> need more than 18 months, we'd love to hear your use case and something in
>>> the form of:
>>>
>>> need daily resolution for 1 year
>>> need weekly resolution for 2 years
>>> need monthly resolution for 3 years
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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