Perhaps this shows that some kind of commons bot that links or loads the images to flickr might be of benefit to commons traffic as well. Most people dont know what commons is and it certainly doesnt havevthe same footprint on googlevsearches as wikipedia or flickr.

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------ Original message------ From: Fæ Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2015 9:15 AM To: Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]; Cc: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination - closed list; Subject:Re: [GLAM] [cultural-partners] Public impact of mirroring GLAM collections on Wikimedia Commons to Flickr

It will be interesting to see if anyone has some answers on how bots might bias the numbers, though the same can be asked of Commons statistics. :-)

I do see a fair few people favouriting and commenting on the images. Checking the last hour, 22 images have been favourited by 3 different users, so the proportion of passive viewers vs. active users is not unreasonable.

Fae

On 31 January 2015 at 13:56, Andy Mabbett wrote:

On 31 January 2015 at 12:35, Fæ wrote:

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the picture has already had 500 views by the public

I wonder how many of those are bots?

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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