Answering my own question: until somebody puts up a stats.grok.se-like
interface for the mediacounts, i've hacked together a Python script
that can be used to 'query' the TSV files with a file, or a list of
files:

https://github.com/hay/wiki-tools/blob/master/etc/mediacounts-stats.py

-- Hay

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Maarten Brinkerink
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Erik,
>
> Thanks for pointing to this nice development! Since I’m not so technical, I
> was wondering to what extend this development helps us reach the vision and
> requirements that have been described by Maarten Zeinstra as part of his
> research for the GW Toolset project
> (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project)?
>
> See:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_on_requirements_for_usage_and_reuse_statistics_for_GLAM_content.pdf
>
> Best,
>
> Maarten
>
> Op 24 mrt. 2015, om 20:47 heeft Jane Darnell <[email protected]> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> +1 - I just crashed my spreadsheet trying to open one .tsv file. But great
> news indeed Erik - this is an important first step!
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Awesome! I'm especially glad that more statistics than 'just' the
>> image views are included, like the aggregated views for thumbnails,
>> and the media files as well. I just hope somebody will built a tool in
>> the near future like stats.grok.se so we can view statistics for
>> individual files and/or sets of files a la Bagalama2.
>>
>> -- Hay
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Erik Zachte <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Today WMF Analytics announces a new product: a daily feed of media file
>> > request counts for all Wikimedia projects [1].
>> >
>> > The counts are based on unsampled data, so any single request within the
>> > defined scope [2] will contribute to the counts.
>> >
>> > It can be seen as complimentary to our page view counts files [5].
>> >
>> > The file layout is documented on wikitech [3].
>> >
>> > Daily counts have been backfilled from January 1, 2015 onwards.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Additionally there is a daily zip file which contains a small subset of
>> > these raw counts: top 1000 most requested media files, one csv file for
>> > each
>> > column [7]. As these csv files have headers (not so easy to add in Hive)
>> > you
>> > may want to start with this file for a first impression (best open in
>> > spreadsheet program).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The counts are collected from our Hadoop system, using a Hive query,
>> > with
>> > data markup done in UDF scripts. This feed hopefully addresses a long
>> > standing request, expressed often and by many, which we regrettably
>> > couldn't
>> > fulfil earlier, as our pre-Hadoop infrastructure and processing capacity
>> > were not up to the task.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > An initial draft design (RFC) was presented last November at the
>> > Amsterdam
>> > Hackaton 2014 (GLAM and Wikidata).
>> >
>> > Online consultation followed, leading to the current design [4].
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This is a data feed with production status, but not the final release,
>> > as
>> > there is one major issue that hasn't been addressed yet (but progress is
>> > being made):
>> >
>> > When using Media viewer to view images, some images are prefetched for
>> > better user experience, but these may never be shown to the user.
>> > Currently,
>> > those prefetched images are getting counted, as there is no way to
>> > detect
>> > whether an image was actually shown to the user or not.
>> >
>> > Gilles Dubuc and other colleagues worked on a solution that would not
>> > hamper
>> > performance (a tough challenge) and would help us discern viewed from
>> > non-viewed files. A few days ago a patch was published! Adaptation of
>> > the
>> > Hive query will follow later. [6] Also, and related, context tagging
>> > isn't
>> > supported yet. [9]
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Huge thanks to all people who contributed to the process so far, and
>> > still
>> > do.
>> >
>> > Special thanks to Christian Aistleitner with whom I co-authored the
>> > design,
>> > and who also wrote the Hive implementation.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Erik Zachte
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediacounts/
>> >
>> > [2]
>> >
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_counts#Filtering
>> >
>> > [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Mediacounts
>> >
>> > [4]
>> >
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_counts
>> >
>> > [5]
>> > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pagecounts-all-sites
>> >
>> >       (a new version of this data feed is in the works)
>> >
>> > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89088
>> >
>> > [7] Before you ask: no plans yet for further aggregation into monthly or
>> > yearly top ranking files. The current csv files are quick wins, using
>> > standard Linux tools.
>> >
>> > [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer
>> >
>> > [9]
>> >
>> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_counts#by_context
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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