I did look at this. You can clearly see the drop in eswiki vs ptwiki
if you just look at page views of commons; there is a sharp drop in
2014-06 after Media Viewer is turned on.
For the "top declines" countries I looked at (well, Mexico and
Ecuador), the commons page views aren't a significant fraction of
overall page views, so this doesn't change the overall stats much.
It's possible that for smaller projects this might significantly
affect the total, but it would have to be a project with a big ratio
of image views to article reads.
--scott
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Idle
thought...
It used to be that, when an image was clicked, it would generate a
pageview of a local File: page (for Commons images, usually a "dummy"
local page). On some projects, it would instead go to the
corresponding Commons file page.
However, the use of mediaviewer means that a significant fraction of
clicks on images will not lead to a new pageview; the user is
satisfied with the lightbox, closes it in place, and stays on the
page.
In the eswiki case, this seems to be a very convincing explanation for
the Commons drop. As a project which has not allowed local uploads for
a long time, I believe any image links went straight to Commons rather
than to the local File page used on enwiki.
Which leads to an obvious question - on other projects, such as enwiki
or frwiki, have we accounted for a drop in *file page* views? What do
overall pageview numbers look like using, say, just mainspace/ns0?
I like the explanation. More work would probably have to be done to prove
it, but it sounds good. And it illustrates the point that fewer pageviews
is not always a bad thing!
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