[Xmldatadumps-l] New web server for dumps/datasets, OLD ONE GOING AWAY

2018-04-04 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
Folks, As you'll have seen from previous email, we are now using a new beefier webserver for your dataset downloading needs. And the old server is going away on TUESDAY April 10th. This means that if you are using 'dataset1001.wikimedia.org' or the IP address itself in your scripts, you MUST

[Xmldatadumps-l] Change for abstracts dumps, primarily for wikidata

2018-04-04 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a summary of the page because main namespace articles on wikidata aren't paragraphs of text. And there's really no useful summary to be generated, even if we

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] [Wikitech-l] Change for abstracts dumps, primarily for wikidata

2018-04-04 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
I love this change, thank you! On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:33 PM Ariel Glenn WMF wrote: > Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the > content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a > summary of the page because main

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] [Dumps] Dumps web service migration on 2018-04-04

2018-04-04 Thread Madhumitha Viswanathan
Reminder: This is happening in a few minutes. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < mviswanat...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello dumps.wikimedia.org users, > > The servers that host the dumps.wikimedia.org site are being replaced > with shiny new hardware! The web service