Christian:
I just noticed that the November directory of the pagecounts-ez/merged files at:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/2013/2013-11/
looks wrong. There are so many files ending in ".~" instead of ".bz2".
Also the timestamps differ from previous months. So for example each of the files in
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/2013/2013-09/
have been created on the day following the date in the file name.
P.S.: I noticed that the problem seems to have started in October:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/merged/2013/2013-10/
There the 2013-10-24 file is not a ".bz2", but ".~".
That date struck me. Although it's probably completely unrelated, we had (for first time) a strange log line in the zero logs at that same day. There the timestamp of a log line has been mangled [1].
We're seeing such requests more and more these days.
[1]
qchris@stat1002 0 20:18:05
cwd: ~
zcat /a/squid/archive/zero/zero.tsv.log-20131024 | cut -f 3 | grep -C 5 201cp3011
2013-10-23T13:29:23
2013-10-23T13:29:23
2013-10-23T13:29:23
2013-10-23T13:29:23
2013-10-23T13:29:23
201cp3011.esams.wikimedia.org
2013-10-23T13:29:24
2013-10-23T13:29:24
2013-10-23T13:29:24
2013-10-23T13:29:24
2013-10-23T13:29:24
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal