Well the story around Osmosis has further details... They released their first 300 or so vidoes under an open license and they were within Wikipedia articles for a while. You can still see them on Commons here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_from_Osmosis

A number of folks pushed exceedingly hard for their removal. And thus they are no longer in EN WP. How extensively they were viewed we do not know as we have no way to determine that data. Our only data for videos is if the portion of the page they are on is loaded or not, and not if the play button has been pressed or how much of the video was watched.

Following the breakdown of our collaboration with Osmosis they dropped the use of an open license, and all their subsequent material is fully copyrighted. Just a few weeks back they sold themselves to Elsevier...

Now one of the legitimate criticisms of these videos is that they were not easily collaboratively editable. We have built software to make collaborative editing of video easier. Unfortunately currently it is down and we are needing to find a programmer able and willing to fix it, we at Wiki Project Med do not have much funding available... 

https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:VideoWiki

James



On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:53 PM Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net> wrote:
Thanks, James. I think this is an important point. So we could say we
have lost a part of acedemia.

More to the point, we seem to have failed to integrate course materials
and multimedia formats into Wikipedia articles.

Could we try and create some of these and integrate them into articles
relevant to students in oder to test whether this makes a difference to
them? Or do you think they would stick to Osmosis etc. anyway?

Best regards,
Jürgen.

Am 08.01.22 um 00:38 Uhr schrieb James Heilman:
> With respect to some anecdotal evidence, I have for many years asked the
> medical students who work with me on their clinical rotations how they
> study. I get a few passes through my department a month.
>
>  Most reported using Wikipedia 5 to 10 years back. Now sources like
> Osmosis, which are basically short video overviews with questions banks
> attached, are more commonly mentioned. Video is becoming a more common
> way for younger folks to learn.
>
> James
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:55 PM Mohamed ElGohary <ircpresident@gmail.com
> <mailto:ircpresident@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     "Is the traffic measured where content is read" would be a better
>     way of putting it. 
>
>     --
>     Gohary (ircpresident)
>
>     On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 12:52 AM Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net
>     <mailto:jfenn@gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>         Anders raised the question how this relates to "smarter"
>         machine-created
>         traffic. Do we know more about this?
>
>         Best Regards,
>         Jürgen.
>
>         Am 07.01.22 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb James Heilman:
>         > Have been tracking medical pageviews for EN WP for more than
>         10 years.
>         > It appears our readership peaked around 2014, there was a bump
>         during
>         > the pandemic, and now the fall in pageviews is
>         continuing again... This
>         > despite much of our pageviews for medicine continuing to be
>         related to
>         > the pandemic.
>         >
>         >
>         https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>         <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png>
>         >
>         <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png
>         <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change_in_medical_pageviews_from_2009_until_2014.png>>
>         >
>         >
>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages>
>         >
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages>>
>         >
>         > James
>         >
>         > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:09 AM Toni Ristovski
>         <toni91ehrlich@gmail.com <mailto:toni91ehrlich@gmail.com>
>         > <mailto:toni91ehrlich@gmail.com
>         <mailto:toni91ehrlich@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>         >
>         >     Additionally, pandemic 2020 with a lot of lockdowns makes many
>         >     people commit to different activities, among them starting
>         editing
>         >     on Wikipedia or reading more. Basically, in my opinion it
>         is better
>         >     to compare with 2019 numbers. Also, it will be useful to
>         have some
>         >     kind of survey about this which can give us a better
>         overview of
>         >     these data.
>         >
>         >     As I`m editor and admin on Macedonian Wikipedia, I was quite
>         >     surprised that our Wikipedia actually continues to grow in
>         terms of
>         >     reading and having a stable editing base.
>         >
>         >     All the best,
>         >     Toni
>         >
>         >     On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:52 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>         >     <galder158@hotmail.com <mailto:galder158@hotmail.com>
>         <mailto:galder158@hotmail.com <mailto:galder158@hotmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         >         There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns
>         made a huge
>         >         peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.
>         >
>         >         2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du
>         (Anders
>         >         Wennersten <mail@anderswennersten.se
>         <mailto:mail@anderswennersten.se>
>         >         <mailto:mail@anderswennersten.se
>         <mailto:mail@anderswennersten.se>>>):
>         >
>         >             When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias:
>         en, de pl,
>         >             nl they all
>         >             show a decrease of views of 13-15% in last 12
>         months from a
>         >             year ago,
>         >             and number of active editors down 10- 20 % (with
>         exception
>         >             of en).
>         >
>         >             Has this been analysed somewhere, are we losing
>         our readers and
>         >             contributors or is it mostly Google that access
>         our info
>         >             "smarter" not
>         >             creating "views"
>         >
>         >             Anders
>         >
>         >             https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org
>         <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org>
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>         <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org>
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>         <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org>>
>         >
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>         <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org>
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>         <https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/nl.wikipedia.org>>
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