2009/1/8 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
The simplest research approach that any volunteer could take is to take a sample (say 50 featured media and 50 random ones) and to catalog in a spreadsheet usage across Wikimedia projects, using the CheckUsage tool. But I'm sure there are other approaches - both quantitative and qualitative - that might work as well, e.g. based on Wikipedia article traffic statistics.
CheckUsage being basically nonfunctional on en:wp is a problem.
Is there any en:wp-specific tool that could be made to check this stuff? Even a bot on a weekly run or whatever.
- d.