On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:04 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 1:33 PM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:
I've updated the HitCounters extension in gerrit[1] and made it installable via composer.[2]
Please feel free to file bugs against this in phabricator.[3]
Awesome, thanks Mark.
I think this extension should be included by default in Mediawiki. It is so useful I don't understand why folks have to do something special to get it.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_hit_counters_fr...
Thanks Bryan.
I'm not sure about this: * useless metric
We find it very useful for the development lifecycle. Specifically, Step 5, feedback. We use it to determine what pages should be extra polished, and what users are having problems with.
Hmmm.... * better served by an extension * Extension:Google Analytics or similar
I'm not sure it is a good idea to track users or force users to surrender their data to Google. Wiki administrators should not set that policy for a user. Agreeing to tracking and surrendering data should be a user's choice.
Jeff