2009/1/8 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org: As part of this proposal, I would like to
make a compelling case that pictures and other media uploaded to Commons benefit from strongly from the increased visibility, especially through Wikipedia articles. I'd also like to demonstrate that images get used in multiple languages and multiple projects.
This is similar to a discussion I started in July, called "Institutional stats reports" http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2008-July/003924.html.
Domas' wikistats doesn't include image view logs. To be useful, such logs would aggregate stats of all different size thumbnails. I opened a bug report to request this data in late July. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14890
WMF has the data directly, why not provide it? Instead of suggesting volunteers go the long way around which is ultimately less accurate.
Beyond view stats I can think of a few other arguments which I will write up on the wiki page.
cheers Brianna