On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Brianna Laugher
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Thoughts? Good idea or waste of time?
It's a good idea to connect the page view stats to provide stats per
image and offer aggregates.
But at the same time we don't want to further the belief that views
directly relate to value. Providing the right image to the right
person has a lot more value than simply showing an image to lots and
lots of people.
When an image is placed in some obscure Wikipedia article it might not
get a lot of page views, but when it is seen it is probably of
substantial interest and value, far more so than yet-another-image
scrolling by in a flickr feed.
Wikipedia sees an absolutely enormous amount of traffic but it is
distributed over an enormous number of articles, so many pages get
fairly few views... but if you took away all the low traffic pages
Wikipedia would lose its value almost completely. When something like
a powerhouse museum image becomes part of a Wikipedia it becomes more
than a single image, it helps complete this enormous and widely used
reference work, and its contribution is far greater than the sum of
its pageviews.
Just a thought....