The header? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why not just throw something into x_analytics and aggregate by that value? > > On 23 February 2015 at 19:41, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all - > > > > I'm checking with people in ops, but we're planning to add a well defined > > parameter to the end of URLs to see the level of clickthroughs on such > > links. For example: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus?analytics=ios_share_a_fact_v1 > > > > (If there are existing params on the URL - not an issue so far that I > know > > of for the apps as they canonicalize the title and URL - then the param > > would be last in the ampersand separated query string parameter.) > > > > And then we'd use Varnish to remove the parameter to reduce the risk of > > cache fragmentation. > > > > We "know" this is probably only a short term solution, and as a follow up > > from the meeting with the people on the CC line, I'm emailing to open the > > discussion on options for a more generic option. > > > > So far I think there are a few options from what we've discussed, if > we're > > to support additional bucketing. > > > > (1) More parameters (e.g., ?analytics=ios_share_a_fact&version=1) > > Downside: potentially harder to standardize and remove things from the > URL > > > > (2) More conventional provenance (e.g., > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle&oldid=645632619/ref=_wref_source%3Dapp > <...more > > provenance info as desired>/). > > Downside: technically speaking, may break the schema of well-formed > titles > > > > (3) Rely upon (1) or (2), or perhaps an even more RESTful shortlinker (it > > could have features like target - web or w:// wor wiki:// protocol or > > whatever - versioning, etc.). > > Downside: maybe a little more work to stand up service. As we recalled, > > there's an extension out there that may, perhaps with some tweaks, fit > the > > build. > > > > > > > > > > -Adam > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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