Wow, this method looks promising. Will try this to see if it suits my needs.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Diskdance
On Friday, December 1st, 2023 at 8:59 AM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would suggest using the Statsd counters that WikimediaEvents exposes to
> MediaWiki JavaScript (including Gadgets and user scripts!). This is a public
> API, with aggregate data publicly accessible via Grafana.
>
> These require no server-side configurations, schemas, or private data access.
> And (on the flipside) also do not record any personal information.
>
> To use it, call mw.track( counter.gadget_<gadgetname>.<metricname> ) in your
> gadget.
>
> For example:
>
> mw.track( 'counter.gadget_VariantAlly.storage_empty_dialog' );
>
> To make visualising easier, I've put together a generic dashboard to plot
> these:
> https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000037/gadget-stats
>
> --
> Timo Tijhof
> https://timotijhof.net/
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, at 09:33, psnbaotg via Wikitech-l wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm User:Diskdance, and recently I'm developing a default gadget for Chinese
>> Wikipedia enhancing MediaWiki's variant handling logic, and under certain
>> circumstances a prompt is shown at page load asking for a user's preferred
>> variant. Consider it as a conditional Cookie notice, and its English
>> screenshot can be found at
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VariantAlly-En.png.
>>
>> Iknowthis can be very disruptive on UX, so I tend to be careful about its
>> negative impact on page views. If the gadget can collect telemetry data
>> about the prompt's display frequency and user interactions(using e.g.
>> WikimediaEvents), I can know about its possible impact.
>>
>> Is this possible? It would be much appreciated if anybody could provide
>> assistance.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Diskdance
>>
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