Yep, so that's the best data I know of as well. The table that backs the public API is documented here. And we have a visualization of this in Wikistats, where you can filter down to just audio files.Happy to help slice and dice through the data, you can post questions here or ping me.On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 1:25 PM Andrew Otto <otto@wikimedia.org> wrote:Hi Willy,(Forwarding your question to the public analytics list for others who might know more.)> Do you have any data that shows how many times audio files were downloaded in 2022?I think your best bet is the Mediacounts dataset, which is available in a public API. E.g., to get # requested of audio downloads in 2022:However, it doesn't look like data transfer details are available in the Public API. The backing dataset in Hive does have a total_response_size field so you could probably get this info more specifically by querying for it in Hive.Good luck!_______________________________________________On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 7:11 PM Willy Pao <wpao@wikimedia.org> wrote:Hey Andrew - hope all is going well. I've been working on gathering some data for Wikimedia's Annual Sustainability Report, and there was a question that Deb sent over regarding the usage of Audio files. With Jaime's help from Data Persistence SRE, we were able to figure out some of the numbers around storage and energy consumption. There was one part I was hoping you (or someone from your team) might be able to help with though. Do you have any data that shows how many times audio files were downloaded in 2022? Much appreciated in advance.Thanks,Willy---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Deb Tankersley <dtankersley@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Subject: energy used to store
To: Willy Pao <wpao@wikimedia.org>, Erin Morris <emorris@wikimedia.org>, Cassie Casares <ccasares@wikimedia.org>Hey Willy!I got an interesting question (bolded below) from Wikimedia Sweden on the energy that we use to store and serve audio files. Here's their full comment / question:"As part of my yearly planning for 2023, we are conducting a study regarding digitization of audio tapes, which climate footprints the various stages in the process generate and whether some of these can be made more energy efficient. We have limited the study to audio tapes, because it is a prioritized material category and a very data-intensive business, and because the limitation hopefully gives us relatively accurate numbers. Since we have been publishing digital audio originally from audio tapes on Wikimedia Commons for the past few years, I was wondering if there are any statistics related to energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions available?
What we would like to know is how much energy is required in the year 2022 to store our total amount of uploaded audio files (with the exception of Karl Tirén's phonograph recordings), how many times they have been downloaded and how large a total amount of data is involved. We suspect that downloading the high-resolution audio files is also relatively data intensive. As mentioned, the goal is not to stop this activity, or even reduce it without seeing how it looks and then investigating whether there are any links in the chain that can be tweaked to possibly reduce the climate impact. If numbers cannot be obtained, this is also valuable information."
I'm not sure if we can narrow down this enough to get them a decent / solid answer. What are your thoughts?Thanks,
Deb
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