+1 to statsd as a great way to get started with as little friction
as possible. I've bubbled this up to the folks that make decisions about
instrumentation, so if you find yourself wanting to do things beyond what's
possible with statsv, please chime back in here and let us know.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 8:02 PM Krinkle <krinkle(a)fastmail.com> 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.
I *know *this 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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