On 12 July 2016 at 08:50, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
So:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lozupone_katz2.png - counts, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz%27s_Delicatessen - does not count
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz%27s_Delicatessen#/media/File:Lozupone_kat...
- does not count
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lozupone_katz2.png - does not count
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Lozupone_katz2.png...
- does not count
After thinking about this a bit, I sanity-checked the numbers -
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=commons.wikimedia.org&platf...
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=a...
The English Wikipedia "pseudo-file-description" page gets 28 views to 12 on Commons over a 20-day period. Pulling up some random other images from article leads...
File:Michael_Collins_1922.jpg - 55 en, 28 commons File:Empire_State_Building_by_David_Shankbone_crop.jpg - 541 en, 77 commons File:Hylobates_lar_pair_of_white_and_black_01.jpg - 71 en, 21 commons
This is quite interesting - it looks like systematically more people look at the local Wikipedia's mirror of a file description page than view it on Commons. It's not particularly surprising, when you consider the workflow involved, but I don't think I've seen it discussed before...