Forwarding. Worth commenting!
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From: "Erik Zachte" <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 26 Nov 2014 18:06
Subject: [Analytics] RFC for media file request counts, please chime in
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
"Development
and Operations Engineers" <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, "Analytics
Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <
analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>gt;, "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners
coordination - closed list" <cultural-partners(a)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_coun…
Please comment onwiki.
Thanks
Erik Zachte
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