Michael Rosenthal wrote: > I suggest keep the bug on Wikimedia's servers and using a tool which > relies on SQL databases. These could be shared with the toolserver > where the "official" version of the analysis tool runs and users are > enabled to run their own queries (so taking a tool with a good > database structure would be nice). With that the toolserver users > could set up their own cool tools on that data. >
If Javascript was used to serve the bug, it would be quite easy to only load the bug some small fraction of the time, allowing a fair statistical sample of JS-enabled readers (who should, I hope, be fairly representative of the whole population) to be taken without melting down the servers. I suspect the fact that most bots and spiders do not interpret Javascript, and would thus be excluded from participating in the traffic survey, could be regarded as an added bonus. -- Neil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
