How does installing 3rd party analytics software help the WMF accomplish its
goals?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> wrote:

> David Gerard schrieb:
> > Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web bugs in the
> > JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole.
> >
> > Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the
> > loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp uses a web bug
> > that isn't Google), perhaps at least listing the sites somewhere
> > centrally viewable?
>
> Perhaps the solution would be to simply set up our own JS based usage
> tracker?
> There are a few options available
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software>, and for
> starters,
> the backend could run on the toolserver.
>
> Note that anything processing IP addresses will need special approval on
> the TS.
>
> -- daniel
>
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