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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