New subject: Multimedia data being crunched, expanded - first look

25 Jan 2016

Hello, friends!

We have some preliminary numbers and graphs for Commons, English 
Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia on the following:

* Uploads per month
* Unique uploaders per month
* New uploaders per month
* Cross-wiki uploads per month (currently wonky, patch in to fix it)
* UploadWizard uploads per month (based on categories, might be flawed)

You can find the graphs here:

https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/multimedia-health

The raw numbers are available, if you're into it:

http://datasets.wikimedia.org/limn-public-data/metrics/multimedia-health/

These numbers will automatically update each month, and we have 
historical data as far back as is necessary (but feel free to disagree 
with that assessment).

Upcoming numbers:

* Uploaders by tool per month (i.e. people using UW, CWU, etc.)
* New uploaders by tool per month
* Deletions

Numbers I want but haven't totally sussed out how to find (but I'm close!):

* Number of pages with images per month
* Number of images on pages per month

All of those numbers and graphs will show up in the same places (see 
links above) and will also be updated automatically, so we never have to 
think about implementing metrics ever again.

If you want to mess up my code, you can try to do so in the 
analytics/limn-multimedia-data repository on gerrit, and the 
configurations for Dashiki are here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:MultimediaHealth
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dashiki:CategorizedMetrics

Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, complaints, or 
praise for these efforts - I'm available on- or off-list, on 
Phabricator, or on IRC in the #wikimedia-multimedia channel as always :)

And, side plug, the wonderful Analytics humans who brought you the 
reportupdater and Dashiki tools can be found on the analytics list (one 
of the addressees of this message) or in #wikimedia-analytics.

Thanks everyone, here's to more great numbers this year!

-- 
Mark Holmquist
Lead Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
http://marktraceur.info