Quick general reminder.  Please tag tasks with "Analytics-Backlog" instead
of "Analytics" for now.  We need to clean that up, but we just haven't
gotten around to it.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Nice work on the API!
>>
>> I wrote a basic consumer of this API at
>> http://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wKOMMN#wikimdia-pageviews
>
>
> Cool!  Check out dv.wikipedia.org though, some of the RTL is messing with
> your (N views) parens.
>
> The only hurdle I found is that the 'articles' property is itself
>> nested/double encoded JSON, instead of a plain object. This was somewhat
>> unexpected and makes the API harder to use.
>>
>
> Right, for sure.  The data had to be stuffed that way to save space in
> Cassandra.  So we could parse it and reshape the response in RESTBase, and
> that seems like a good idea and probably wouldn't hurt performance too
> much.  Do you think it's worth the breaking change to the format?  I'll
> post on the bug that MZ filed.
>
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