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? 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??
Thanks a lot in advance!!!
Kind regards,
Nokta
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)
Brion, that last bit interested me. Is that how you, for example, make (some of) the mailing list info pages look like a MW site? I wondered about that. Just edit MonoBook.php like it was an actual page rather than an include skin?
--Gary Kirk
On 11/22/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Gary Kirk wrote:
Brion, that last bit interested me. Is that how you, for example, make (some of) the mailing list info pages look like a MW site? I wondered about that. Just edit MonoBook.php like it was an actual page rather than an include skin?
What you can do is peek at some of the structure of the MonoBook HTML skin (and the CSS classes etc), then just pull in the same style sheet.
MonoBook.php itself is a little... scary-looking ;) but you can extract stuff from it.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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