Wikimedia Commons Vanity Stats

I made a thing. It allows you to see how many media requests your files have received on Wikimedia Commons. It’s a vanity project and the numbers don’t mean much without more context. 🙂

It’s a small python script that allows you to provide a username, date range, and a number of files to check. It then uses the MedaiWiki and mediarequests APIs to create a .csv file of how many media requests those files have received. I did this for my own ego, so a literal vanity project!

If this sounds interesting, I’d appreciate any constructive feedback. Not sure I’ll work on it more than I have, but thought I’d share.

https://github.com/ckoerner/Wikimedia-Commons-Vanity-Stats

24 Karat Case of Love

As the credits rolled on Kevin Smith’s latest flick “The 4:30 Movie1, this song came on. It was so catchy and perfect for the period the film takes place in. As I listened, I thought I had missed some great song from the 80s, but no it was written for the movie! Bear McCreary wrote the music and his brother Brendan sings. The little affectations after many words is just :chefs kiss: perfect. And a killer sax solo. 🤘

A Koerner Christmas Tradition

Every year2, for the last sixteen years, I make a video of our family putting up our Christmas tree. I’ve been behind in uploading these. Last year for obvious reasons.

I’ve finally gotten around to uploading 2022, 2023, and this year’s 2024. I’ve even found the “lost” footage from 2016.3

Without further ado…Merry Christmas!

If you want to journey back with me, I have finished uploading all the videos* going back to 2008!