Erik Moeller schrieb:
> What's the impact of these partnerships? How are these media used? We
> didn't have good answers to these questions until very recently.
> Thanks to the work of Bryan Tong Minh, Magnus Manske, and other
> engineers, we now have some first good data:
Thanks to Bryan and Magnus for teir great work on this!
> We'll be able to show even more compelling data if we now add the
> (known) pageview data for the relevant articles. Hopefully this
> emerging data will contribute to a virtuous circle of new content
> partnerships. I'll pull together some facts for a blog update on
> what's happening in the space, but wanted to give a general quick
> update first. :-)
I think it would be even better if we could also show views for the images
themselves, not only page views for the articles they are used in. It would be
interesting to see how the two compare, and also, what (thumbnail) sizes of the
images are viewed.
This information is not being collected at the moment, but Domas told me it
would be trivial to do, if we had a place to put it. We (WMDE) are currently
thinking about ways to make this data available on the toolserver, in raw for as
well as aggregated figures in the database. I hope we can show off the numbers
at Wikimania :)
-- daniel
This is probably more of a question for tech-l, but how would image-views for images placed in WP articles be tracked?
We already count pageviews for articles in WP or images in commons, that's fine. Equally, we can count the clicks on an image if someone clicks the thumbnail. But, how do you measure the number of times that an image is *seen* in articles? Counting the number of thumbnail loads or the number of pageviews is not the same as proving the image was actually looked at. For example, there is a Featured Pic of the day on the front page of Wikipedia, but it is below the fold. Many many people who are loading that thumbnail are not actually seeing the image because they are not scrolling down the page.
How do we differentiate between loading a thumbnail/viewing an article and actually *viewing* an image in that article that is below the fold? Or, when we talk about image views are we only talking about those people who actually click on the image to get a larger size?
(sorry if this is a question that has already been answered elsewhere).
- Liam [[witty lama]]
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