Magnus Manske wrote:
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.
That would work if they were exact views. But given that they're average views, the fact that one person viewed the page today with an ratio 1/1000 doesn't mean the other 999 people could view it yesterday before the image was added.
Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Err... don't we have logs of the access to the image files themselves (including thumbnails)? It would be MUCH simpler to analyse those than to look at page views and then at image usage and then infer how much an image is loaded...
I think only urls in the form http://foo/wiki/bar are being counted.