On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/3 Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com>om>:
Sounds like a good idea. Combine CheckUsage +
domas' Wikistats
and you
have some pretty awesome views per image stats. In fact I don't
see a
reason (except performance) to not make such stats available per
image. And then stuff like total views for images in Category:X
Is Commons data in wikistats? I had a feeling it wasn't?
Most of the images views aren't on commons.. they are on Wikipedia.
What is being suggested is determine where images are used and add up
the counters for those pages.
So how do you account for images being removed from and added to
pages over time? For example [[Image:WScottHancock.jpg]] is used on
over 100 pages on en.wp alone atm but that count will likely drop
dramatically in less than a day. <http://toolserver.org/~daniel/
WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=WScottHancock.jpg>
We could do daily CheckUsage for images and count on a day-by-day
basis. Or just once a week. Or once a month. These will average out
over time.
For that matter, what about really long pages where
people tend to go
to read only part of the page like talk pages?
It's hard to measure how often an image is looked at on a page. But
then, this is not an exact metric in the first place.
Should extra weight be given to views of an image or
it's description
page directly? (rather than on an article or other page that
references it)
We could list that separately. Our "customers" might not be interested
in the per-image views, but more in the overall collection views. Like
"pages containing your images were looked at 10.000 times, and the
image was selected and looked at 1.000 times".
Magnus