Magnus' blog post today is a must-read for anyone in the GLAM community who wants to understand why analytics has been such a challenge for us: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=173
Quoting the last three paragraphs in full: [...] Like others, I have tried to get the Foundation to provide the page view > data in a more accessible and local (as in toolserver/Labs) way. Like > others, I failed. The last iteration was a video meeting with the Analytics > team (newly restarted, as the previous Analytics team didn't really work > out for a reason; I didn't inquire too deeply), which ended with a promise > to get this done Real Soon Now(tm), and the generous offer to use the page > view data from their hadoop cluster. Except the cluster turned out to be > empty; I then was encouraged to import the view data myself. (No, this is > not a joke. I have the emails to prove it.) As much as I enjoy working with > and around the Wikiverse, I do have neither the time, the bandwidth, nor > the inclination to do your paid jobs for you, thank you very much. > As the sophisticated reader might have picked up at this point, the entire > topic is rather frustrating for myself and others, and being unable to > offer a patchy, error-prone data set to GLAMs who have released hundreds of > thousands of files under a free license into Commons is, quite frankly, > disgraceful. The requirement for the Foundation is not unreasonable; > providing what Henrik has been doing for years on his own would be quite > sufficient. Not even that is required; myself and others have volunteered > to write interfaces if the back-end data is provided in a usable form. > Of the tools I try to provide in the GLAM realm, some don't really work at > the moment due to the constraints described above; some work so-so, kept > running with a significant amount of manual fixing. Adding 100.000 Wellcome > Trust images may be enough for them to come to a grinding halt. And when > all the institutions who so graciously have contributed free content to the > Wikiverse come a-running, I will make it perfectly clear that there is only > the Foundation to blame. And as many of have said before, thanks to Magnus for doing as much as he has been able to within current circumstances. Dominic
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