veronica lopez diaz wrote:
Hello everybody,
I do not know, if I am right here, so I apologize in advance if not.
I am working on a seminar about Wikis, and I need to know, if there is any possibility in WikiMedia to track users or pages?
*Wikimedia* is a not-for-profit corporation which operates several open-content projects such as Wikipedia. Wikimedia's privacy policy restricts what sort of data we track on users, but some aggregate traffic data is produced.
*MediaWiki* is software which can be run by anyone for any purpose; when operating your own web site you may track visitors however you like within the limits of your ability and the law in your jurisdiction.
Would it be possible with a pixel tag, or isn't that possible with WikiMedia???? Is there any possibility to analyse weblogs in WikiMedia? What happens when using a proxy??
Analysis of web server/proxy log files directly or via web-bug usage trackers should work just fine, and is pretty much fully independent of MediaWiki.
If you wish to insert a web-bug-style tracker into pages generated by MediaWiki's user interface you can customize skins/MonoBook.php or whichever skin system you use to add the desired HTML.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)