Dan Rosenthal wrote: > Installing Google Analytics, even for our own purposes, is a bad idea. > For one, it creates a link to google that is not necessarily what we > want; it would be a big target for people to try and hack, and it > presents tempting security risks on Google's end. Not to mention, as > far as I know the program is proprietary. > > If we're going to do something like this, it should be open source, > and it should something that we can internally install and monitor > without external options. That is, again, assuming we do something > like that. That's not a foregone presumption. I'm not convinced that > we need to be tracking user behavior at this point in time, or that > the tradeoffs for doing so are worth any benefits, or that doing so is > in furtherance of our mission. >
The plain pageview stats are already available. Erik Zachte has been doing some work on other stats. <http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/VisitorsSampledLogRequests.htm> If I were to compile a wishlist of stats things: 1. stats.grok.se data for non-Wikipedia projects 2. A better interface for stats.wikimedia.org - There's a lot of data there, but it can be hard to find it and its not very publicized. The only reason I knew about the link above is because someone pointed it out to me once and I bookmarked it. 3. Pageview stats at <http://dammit.lt/wikistats/> in files based on projects. It would be a lot easier for people at the West Flemish Wikipedia to analyze statistics themselves if they didn't have to download tons of data they don't need. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
