Nathan <nawr...@...> writes: > Others have since discussed more centralised and secure methods for > providing these statistics via the WMF - this is the ideal outcome, and one > that might have been achieved earlier had you proposed your method rather > than simply going ahead alone.
Setting up an off-the-shelf awstats with an invisible pixel is web statistics 101, not something that needs to be invented. The reason nothing similar got implemented is not that nobody thought of this method, but that it wouldn't work with enwiki so nobody cared. Actually, the old knams stat (which also collected referrers, so it was in some aspects superior) could have been easily kept working by filtering out enwiki, and maybe the next few largest projects; again, nobody cared. Features that only benefit the smaller projects rarely get enough developer interest, which is understandable, but then it is only natural that those smaller projects try to solve their issues for themselves. And we did it with privacy in mind - we would have obviously preferred Google Analytics ourselves, but we didn't switch because we didn't want the logs to leak to servers not controlled by WM community, and because it shows data that can be used to identify IP adresses. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
