Forwarding. Worth commenting! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Erik Zachte" ezachte@wikimedia.org Date: 26 Nov 2014 18:06 Subject: [Analytics] RFC for media file request counts, please chime in To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "Development and Operations Engineers" engineering@lists.wikimedia.org, "Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." < analytics@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination - closed list" cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch Cc:
Since 2008 Wikimedia collects pageview counts for most pages on nearly all wikis. A longstanding request of stakeholders (editors, researchers, GLAM advocates) has been to publish similar counts for media files: images, sounds, videos. A major obstacle to effectuate this was the existing traffic data collecting software. Webstatscollector simply couldn't be scaled up further without incurring huge costs. In 2014 WMF engineers rolled out a new Hadoop based infrastructure, which makes it possible to collect raw request counts for media files. So a few months after releasing extended pageview counts (with mobile/zero added), the time has come to produce similar data dumps for media files.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_count...
Please comment onwiki.
Thanks
Erik Zachte
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