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generate and email monthly stats to xmldumps mailing list
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Once every three years I remember to update the metawiki Dumps FAQ page which includes things like "How big are the English language Wikpedia content history files, uncompressed?" Etc. It would be nice to have these updated automatically once every so often. A script isn't hard. And then, if we're going to get the data once a month or so, why not email it to the list?

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For reference, we can use an email address that is a non-list-member and manually flag emails from it for acceptance to the list. This is what was done for the phabricator community stats emails (e.g. T81784).

The whole thing ought to be easy: script to collect the stats, fill in a template, shovel the results to /bin/mail, done.

Change 303707 had a related patch set uploaded (by ArielGlenn):
generate and email a few fun dump-related stats each month

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/303707

Change 303707 merged by ArielGlenn:
[operations/puppet@production] generate and email a few dump-related stats each month

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/303707

This is deployed but I'll wait to close it until we see the first email arrive in a few days.

The mail arrived and looks fine, closing this.