@Milimetric Thanks for filing this. While we're more than happy to help, we as a team have no idea who those users are nor can figure that out in any way different than, well, asking on generic fora, "are you a dump user". Will you give us data about them?

PS: Also please give me an idea of a timeline. Are we talking "this month", "next FY", ...? TY.

@Elitre: good point. I think we're no more knowledgeable about dumps users either. Ariel had a presentation that explained why it's hard to even know who they are (because dumps are mirrored all over the world and we can't track that usage at all). I think if we go forward with the approach we took in the Wikistats 2 consultation, where Erik Zachte asked on the mailing lists and his personal blog and the existing Wikistats 1 website about it, we might be ok. I think ultimately we involved the right people there. For reference: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedback

As for timeline, for #1 we'd like to start right away, as soon as we figure out the right approach as per above ^. For #2 and #3, we can follow up after we start and see who engages and all that. If that answer's too wishy washy, please do ping me and we can chat in more detail.

There is a listserv that seems to be specifically for dumps users at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org/.

@Milimetric I'll come up with a plan and LYK when I can, thanks.

We had our first meeting today and I think I have what I need to start working on this request . Given that my team's offsite is a bit in the way, this is not going to reach the public this month.

The team LMK that there's no rush. I started a doc for them to work on the language of the questions.

@Elitre is there any update about this task? to transfer the info to Asana Mov Calendar

Not really, we're progressing slowly. I added what seems to be a related task now.

AutoWikiBrowser has an database scanner using the dumps. Just pointing it out, seems relevant.