On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
2008/7/3 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com:
Sounds like a good idea. Combine CheckUsage + domas' Wikistats and you have some pretty awesome views per image stats. In fact I don't see a reason (except performance) to not make such stats available per image. And then stuff like total views for images in Category:X
Is Commons data in wikistats? I had a feeling it wasn't?
Most of the images views aren't on commons.. they are on Wikipedia. What is being suggested is determine where images are used and add up the counters for those pages.
So how do you account for images being removed from and added to pages over time? For example [[Image:WScottHancock.jpg]] is used on over 100 pages on en.wp alone atm but that count will likely drop dramatically in less than a day. http://toolserver.org/~daniel/ WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=WScottHancock.jpg
We could do daily CheckUsage for images and count on a day-by-day basis. Or just once a week. Or once a month. These will average out over time.
For that matter, what about really long pages where people tend to go to read only part of the page like talk pages?
It's hard to measure how often an image is looked at on a page. But then, this is not an exact metric in the first place.
Should extra weight be given to views of an image or it's description page directly? (rather than on an article or other page that references it)
We could list that separately. Our "customers" might not be interested in the per-image views, but more in the overall collection views. Like "pages containing your images were looked at 10.000 times, and the image was selected and looked at 1.000 times".
Magnus