[Commons-l] A small Commons research project

[Tim 'avatar' Bartel]

Hi,

2009/1/8 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 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.

This is a temporary 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.

In the mean time you can use the ancestor:
http://www.juelich.de/avatar/check-usage/

(no support)

Bye, Tim.

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