Thanks Ariel for the kind and thorough update. and Dennis's sentiment
exactly!

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 10:22 PM Dennis During <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for setting an example for this kind of work should be done.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 7:43 PM Steven Walling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> +1 to Dan. Ariel thank you for so many years of doing this essential
>> work.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 4:14 AM Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ariel, your dedication to dumps has always been an inspiration to me,
>>> both in how you handled the technology and how you fused that with your
>>> care for the ideas behind it.  Thank you, and hope we can do it justice
>>> with the next phase of Dumps.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:39 AM Ariel Glenn WMF <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello folks!
>>>>
>>>> For some years now, I've been the main or only point of contact for the
>>>> Wiki project sql/xml dumps semimonthly, as well as for a number of
>>>> miscellaneous weekly datasets.
>>>>
>>>> This work is now passing to Data Platform Engineering (DPE), and your
>>>> new points of contact, starting right away, will be Will Doran
>>>> (email:wdoran) and Virginia Poundstone (email:vpoundstone). I'll still be
>>>> lending a hand in the background for a little while but by the end of the
>>>> month I'll have transitioned into a new role at the Wikimedia Foundation,
>>>> working more directly on MediaWiki itself.
>>>>
>>>> The Data Products team, a subteam of DPE, will be managing the current
>>>> dumps day-to-day, as well as working on a new dumps system intended to
>>>> replace and greatly improve the current one. What formats will it produce,
>>>> and what content, and in what bundles?  These are all great questions, and
>>>> you have a chance to help decide on the answers. The team is gathering
>>>> feedback right now; follow this link [
>>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScp2KzkcTF7kE8gilCeSogzpeoVN-8yp_SY6Q47eEbuYfXzsw/viewform?usp=sf_link]
>>>> to give your input!
>>>>
>>>> If you want to follow along on work being done on the new dumps system,
>>>> you can check the phabricator workboard at
>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/6630/ and look for
>>>> items with the "Dumps 2.0" tag.
>>>>
>>>> Members of the Data Products team are already stepping up to manage the
>>>> xmldatadumps-l mailing list, so you should not notice any changes as far as
>>>> that goes.
>>>>
>>>> And as always, for dumps-related questions people on this list cannot
>>>> answer, and which are not covered in the docs at
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps or
>>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dumps you can always email
>>>> ops-dumps (at) wikimedia.org.
>>>>
>>>> See you on the wikis!
>>>>
>>>> Ariel Glenn
>>>> [email protected]
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