2009/10/10 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
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)