Personally, I would rather see the parameter named something other than
"analytics". It's too generic. I would suggest using "source",
"provenance" or even "share_a_fact"
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Kevin Leduc <kevin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Oliver, the discussion is on the formatting of the URL that is posted on
user's twitter or facebook feed when they use the "share a fact" feature.
We can't set headers at this point because users are clicking on the like
from another site.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> Why not just throw something into x_analytics and aggregate by that
> value?
>
> On 23 February 2015 at 19:41, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi all -
> >
> > I'm checking with people in ops, but we're planning to add a well
> > defined
> > parameter to the end of URLs to see the level of clickthroughs on
> > such
> > links. For example:
> >
> >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus?analytics=ios_share_a_fact_v1
> >
> > (If there are existing params on the URL - not an issue so far that I
> > know
> > of for the apps as they canonicalize the title and URL - then the
> > param
> > would be last in the ampersand separated query string parameter.)
> >
> > And then we'd use Varnish to remove the parameter to reduce the risk
> > of
> > cache fragmentation.
> >
> > We "know" this is probably only a short term solution, and as a
> > follow up
> > from the meeting with the people on the CC line, I'm emailing to open
> > the
> > discussion on options for a more generic option.
> >
> > So far I think there are a few options from what we've discussed, if
> > we're
> > to support additional bucketing.
> >
> > (1) More parameters (e.g., ?analytics=ios_share_a_fact&version=1)
> > Downside: potentially harder to standardize and remove things from
> > the URL
> >
> > (2) More conventional provenance (e.g.,
> >
> >
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle&oldid=645632619/ref=_…
> > provenance info as desired>/).
> > Downside: technically speaking, may break the schema of well-formed
> > titles
> >
> > (3) Rely upon (1) or (2), or perhaps an even more RESTful shortlinker
> > (it
> > could have features like target - web or w:// wor wiki:// protocol or
> > whatever - versioning, etc.).
> > Downside: maybe a little more work to stand up service. As we
> > recalled,
> > there's an extension out there that may, perhaps with some tweaks,
> > fit the
> > build.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Adam
> >
> >
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