Thanks. My goal is to understand which are the most viewed images on Commons through Wikipedia. By reading the mediacount description, it is possible to get the number of transfers. But if I got it well it counts all the images transferred to the user, making difficult to understand which have been really “seen” by the user. Furthermore, it provides all the interface images and icons, making difficult to filter only on the images used to illustrate the article.

Focusing only on media viewer clicks seems was a possible solution for solving those issues. If you have other suggestions, they are welcome!

Best

Michele

From: Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org>
Date: Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 22:30
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. <analytics@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Michele Mauri <michele.mauri@polimi.it>
Subject: Re: [Analytics] Mediacounts fields

We don't have any public data on media viewer interactions specifically.  We used to have instrumentation on that feature but we haven't tracked it since last year.  To get access to some of the old sanitized data that was retained for research purposes, you'd have to file a formal research proposal, and it doesn't seem likely to get approved, but maybe tell us more about what you're trying to do?

What questions are you hoping to answer, maybe there's another way or another kind of dataset that would serve more use cases?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 4:12 PM Michele Mauri via Analytics <analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello,

For an academic research, I'd like to see which are the most viewed images through the "media viewer".

Do you know if it’s possible to get this information? I looked on the wikitech portal, but I found just the mediacounts (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Mediacounts) which is not what I’m looking for.

Thank you

Michele

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