Submissions:2018/Tools to track views of Commons images

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2018.

Title

Tools to track views of Commons images and their applications

Theme (optional)

Tech & Tools

Academic Peer Review option

No

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Rachel Helps

E-mail address

Rachel_Helpsbyu.edu

Wikimedia username

Rachel Helps (BYU)

Affiliation(s) (optional)

Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

Abstract

A recent research article (summarized here) noted that many images are only used on only one language version of Wikipedia. This shows that sharing images between language projects could be an easy way to improve other-language Wikipedias. I've successfully shared images from my library's special collections with Japanese Wikipedia. I added several images of Japanese war banners to their Japanese counterparts, where many were retained and received more image views.

GLAM employees often upload images to Wikimedia Commons. After making sure the metadata and categories are accurate, sometimes it's not clear what the next step is. Tools that track image views can help uploaders understand which images are the most popular. I'll walk through how to use tools like GLAMorgan and GLAMorous to track views of categories of images hosted on Commons. I'll show how to use the tools to see how and where images are used, and where it might be productive to share images with other-language Wikipedia pages.

Here's the link to Rachel's notes for the session

Length of presentation

15 minutes

Special requests

Projector for slides

Preferred room size

A smaller room should be fine. 10-15 people?

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?

No

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

Yes!

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Maybe

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