Hi all
While looking for a reason our Special:ActiveUsers page and API call was
being jailed to current month and not 30 days back(still wondering about
it). I was told on irc ActiveUsers had been removed from current MW.
Yep, last week a commit to remove the Special page, however it still
looks like it is being shown as an active link on the statistics Special
page.
Got a couple of questions because I don't know if thought out:
My first would be - Why? I realize it might give a limited amount of
stats, but I find it useful to know who has been active on the wiki
rather quickly. Larger wikis or very active wikis should drop the
return in days down to keep the db from being hit too hard. e.g. Last 7
days or last 3 days, it can be set in localsettings.
Why not a flag to turn off or on the Special page? Seems it would have
been simpler to take this route than start axing it out, which now looks
like there are some remnants left - the aforementioned
Special:Statistics page. There is still a link to the ActiveUsers page,
active and errors out on
mediawiki.org.
Is there a planned alternative? Last year, I think, the API in 1.19
added a way to pull active users with an API call. Will that be removed
too?
Struggling to get user participation up on a wiki, statistical data
helps whether it is huge sets or small sets of data. Every little bit
helps. Interested in how everyone else feels about this.
Thanks!
Tom