On 03/18/2013 07:09 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sumana Harihareswara cited:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/szajewski/03szajewski.html
"The results of this study show that the addition of links from relevant
Wikipedia articles to individual digitized assets in the Hague Sheet
Music Collection in the Ball State University Digital Media Repository
was an overwhelming success. Despite the fact that only 57 links to 40
assets were added to Wikipedia articles, pageviews for the collection of
149 assets roughly tripled as a result of this effort.
Do we know to what degree archives and libraries succeed
to actually benefit from an increased web audience?
I'm trying to understand Swedish archives and libraries.
Some of them measure web traffic, but none seems to
care if the numbers are large or small. It's not like a
revenue stream to them.
Lars, I shall defer to the GLAM experts, but take a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Pageviews/GLAM . "To stimulate
GLAMs to upload content to Wikimedia Commons, it is necessary to be able
to communicate how many times these media files are being presented to
users of Wikimedia projects. Being able to communicate these numbers
helps policymakers to integrate Wikipedia into their communications
policy and helps them justify contributing time and knowledge to
Wikimedia projects."
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation