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.