No, the output format of http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ will stay the same. Best, Diederik
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to clarify, will this affect the stats at > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ ? Changing the format > of that will probably break third party scripts. > -- > -bawolff > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Diederik van Liere > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apologies for crossposting > > > > Heya, > > > > The Analytics Team is planning to deploy "tab as field delimiter" to > > replace the current space as fielddelimiter on the varnish/squid/nginx > > servers. We would like to do this on February 1st. The reason for this > > change is that we need to have a consistent number of fields in each > > webrequest log line. Right now, some fields contain spaces and that > require > > a lot of post-processing cleanup and slows down the generation of > reports. > > > > What is affected and maintained by Analytics > > > > * udp-filter already has support for the tab character > > * webstatscollector: we compiled a new version of filter to add support > for > > the tab character > > * wikistats: we will fix the scripts on an ongoing basis. > > * udp2log: we have a patch ready for inserting sequence numbers separated > > by tab. > > > > In particular, I would like to have feedback to three questions: > > > > 1) Are there important reasons not to use tab as field delimiter? > > > > 2) Are there important pieces of logging that expect a space instead of a > > tab and that need to be fixed and that I did not mention in this email? > > > > 3) Is February 1st a good date to deploy this change? (Assuming that all > > preps are finished) > > > > > > Best, > > > > Diederik > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
