Also, I followed up and added the the FAQ: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/Wikistats/Metrics/FAQ#Why_do_pageviews_API_endpoints_serve_fresh_data_but_edit_API_endpoints_serve_monthly_data
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > (I ask this >>> because today we have a lot of interest in append-only logs, like in >>> Dat, Secure Scuttlebutt, and of course blockchains—systems where >>> information cannot be repudiated after it's published. If Wikipedia >>> rejects append-only logs and allows official history to be changed, >>> per this hypothesis, then that's a really weighty argument against >>> those systems.) >> >> > Wikipedia does allow history to be changed, but this has caused lots of > problems with the Analytics pipelines. It's the main reason you can't get > fresh data in the same way you get it for pageviews, even though pageview > data is 3 orders of magnitude bigger. So I wouldn't follow Wikipedia's > example too closely here :) >
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