[Commons-l] A small Commons research project

[David Gerard]

2009/1/8 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:

> The simplest research approach that any volunteer could take is to
> take a sample (say 50 featured media and 50 random ones) and to
> catalog in a spreadsheet usage across Wikimedia projects, using the
> CheckUsage tool. But I'm sure there are other approaches - both
> quantitative and qualitative - that might work as well, e.g. based on
> Wikipedia article traffic statistics.


CheckUsage being basically nonfunctional on en:wp is a problem.

Is there any en:wp-specific tool that could be made to check this
stuff? Even a bot on a weekly run or whatever.


- d.