I'm completely new to analytics in Wikimedia.
Welcome! :)
We are working with a heritage institution in a GLAM project and they are interested in access statistics for the resources they have released in Wikimedia.
Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Israel have worked on some dashboards showing GLAM statistics. You may find their
projects interesting. We are currently
working with Wikimedia Israel to move their dashboard to our cloud infrastructure and eventually update our APIs to better serve them with the data they need. Until then, it may be interesting to see what statistics they've focused on and how they get them from the publicly available data we already provide. You can see all this in their source code:
https://github.com/yonathan06/cassandra-GLAM-tools I think I got the point about how the pageviews concept is and how to use it but, as far as I understand, it's not possible to get details like article pageviews, for example, per country. Is this correct?
We have an ongoing project to release per-country per-article pageview information. It's hard for privacy reasons, and we are building a privacy system that takes all that into account. For now, we have pageviews by country at a
high level and
most viewed articles by country. I'm linking to different parts of our data ecosystem so you can get familiar with it.
If so, what should be the way to get (or process) the information to produce the data?
Also, I'm reading about the resulting format[1] but I can't find the related logs.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
I can see how that can be misleading. For GLAMs, usually you would want to download
media request statistics, as the glamwikidashboard I mentioned above does. (They are currently working on getting as much as they can from the
media requests api instead). If you are indeed interested in pageviews, the definition you linked to talks about the data internally available. Can I ask you to elaborate a bit more on why you need per-country data?