> a lot of people would prefer just an API that takes a list of users and returns reports with a set of standard metrics ran over a standard period of time with standard parameters.
curious to hear more about this, Dan. Can we take 15 minutes to chat this week? On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Could Wikimetrics be expanded to show total pageviews of articles and >> total views of images, for entire categories and/or lists of multiple >> articles starting from variable dates? >> > Wikimetrics is a canned query tool. It could be modified, sure, but we > would need a public API that served the data you're trying to query. > Wikimetrics answers all its current queries from labsdb, which does not > have any pageview data. So far, this pageview data has only been available > via these archives that are added hourly: > > media counts: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediacounts/daily/2015/ > page views: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-all-sites/ (soon > to come, better more normalized data) > >> This would help GLAMs and affiliates to track the viewership of content >> creation that we have supported. >> >> Or are there tools other than Wikimetrics that already make this possible? >> > This quarter we are focusing on a public API that you can use to query > this kind of data on-demand. While Wikimetrics could use this data, and > the metric would be easy to write, it would be harder to extend the "cohort > of users" concept to "cohort of pages" or "category of pages". Maybe the > API we build will be easy enough to use that Wikimetrics won't be required. > > I have become quite skeptical of Wikimetrics's value after some talks with > the folks who use it. It seems that instead of Wikimetrics a lot of people > would prefer just an API that takes a list of users and returns reports > with a set of standard metrics ran over a standard period of time with > standard parameters. I'd love to hear thoughts around this. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > Wikimetrics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics > > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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