yonathan06/cassandra-glam-tools

A usage analysis tool for GLAM institutes to follow free contents contributed to Wikimedia projects

cassandra-glam-tools's Issues

Met stats seem to be dead

Can you check to see why this is not working? Thanks. https://glamwikidashboard.org/MET

README.md and documentation shortcomings

Does the README.md provide enough documentation to install the system from scratch? For example:

"Copy the file config/config.example.json to config/config.json and modify it as required."

This seems like there's a lot that needs to be done here in terms of database setup, and I'm not sure what the right directions would be here. Thanks.

more detailed explanation of view stats

hi, it would be really helpful with a detailed explanation of how the view stats are compiled in this tool, compared to Magnus Manske's tools BaGLAMa2 and Glamorgan.

As you can see from the graph, the stats differ a bit between the three tools (this is Nordic Museum data). I think (but am not 100 % certain) that some possible variances might be:

• is only the top level category used or are subcategories included and how deep?
• how often is the category checked – i.e. if an image is added or removed to the category when does this impact stats?
• are views checked from the daily wikipedia pageview stats or are they calculated from averages?
• are wikipedia pages with a file displayed in a template (not in the actual page content) counted?
• if multiple images from the set are on the same wikipedia page, are the views of that page counted once or for each image?

current description from each tool:

Cassandra:

This line chart shows the sum of the views for the files thats belong to the main category with a 24h span.
Generally the difference of visits between workdays and weekends is quite visible. Sometimes some spikes could lead to a popular event. A growing trend is not always equals to a growing popularity of the category because of file additions.
This statistic is updated every day (max lag time 24h). The data collected here are taken from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediacounts/daily/. A visit is recorded every time a device download a specific file from a Wikimedia server. So it counts both actual visits, and visits on pages where the file is present (but only if loaded on the device). Actually this is the most precise statistic released by Wikimedia servers.

BaGLAMa2:

BaGLAMa shows you page view numbers for pages on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia sites) containing Commons files in a specific category. Since February 2014, a new software is used to aggregate page views, so there may be minute differences.
The new Wikimedia pageview API (human views only, no bots) is used starting 2015-12!

(https://glamtools.toolforge.org/baglama2/)

Glamorgan:

This tool is a variant of baGLAMa2. It can show the view number of pages that include files from a specific Commons category. Human views only, article namespace only. 30K files max in category tree. This tool is run "live", so it may take a while to run.

(https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorgan.html)