Not really; the new pageviews definition wouldn't include those files anyway. It seems silly, thought, be deliberately generating a large amount of automated noise and client requests for this :/.
On 4 February 2015 at 15:00, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Erik Zachte is working on file view stats and is looking for a way to track > Media Viewer image views (for which there is no 1:1 relation between server > hits and actual image views); after some back and forth in > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86914 I proposed the following hack: > > whenever the javascript code in MediaViewer determines that an image view > happened (e.g. an image has been displayed for a certain amount of time), it > makes a request to a certain fake image, say > upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Virtual-imageview-<real > image name>/<size>px-thumbnail.<ext> . These hits can than be easily > filtered from the varnish request logs and added to the normal requests. We > would add a rule to Vagrant to make sure it does not try to look up such > requests in Swift but returns a 404 immediately. > > This would be a temporary workaround until there is a proper way to log > virtual image views, such as EventLogging with a non-SQL backend. > > Do you see any fundamental problem with this? > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
