2009/10/10 Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>et>:
Ideally, I'd like to know how many times an image
is viewed by all
sites that use Commons as their image repository, preferably using
the API. I see that there is a "counter" option in the API, but that
doesn't seem to be working [2].
The counter field in the prop=info output provides the number of
pageviews for the image description page, not for the image itself.
Also, the page view counter is disabled on Wikipedia because of
performance reasons and because Squid caching would cause it to miss a
lot of views and report a ridiculously low number.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)