Hi all -

Thanks to help from folks in the MediaWiki development community, I've recently released the first release candidate of Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework for MediaWiki. OWA is a generic web analytics framework that comes with tight integration for WordPress and MediaWiki (phpBB and Gallery2 are in the works).

In you are interested, see http://www.openwebanalytics.com for the v1.1.0rc1 version of the code and install instructions. This release candidate Installs as a MediaWiki extension and has been tested under MediaWiki v1.10.0.

MediaWiki specific features include:

* Track visitors by MediaWiki user name or e-mail address * Track MediaWiki Page Types (Articles, Special Pages, Categories, etc.) * Reporting accessible via Special Page * Track multiple MediaWiki instances using the same OWA database * Uses MediaWiki user privilege model for access control

Core Features:

* Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time * Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time * Multiple Web Site Support - track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site * Log events can be written to the database asynchronously. * Click-streams - view the actual click-stream of each visitor * Click Tracking - Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type * Click Heat Maps - view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages * Google Maps - map your visitors on Google Maps * Google Earth (KML) - view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML file export * RSS/ATOM subscription tracking - track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests * Visitor Aging - understand the age of your repeat visitors. * Canned and Custom Time Periods - generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges * Referring Page Analysis - View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from referring web pages * View visits by user agent * Track entry and exit pages * Track pages by custom page types

There is a still _a lot_ left to be done here but hopefully this will come in handy for those of you looking to add analytics to MediaWikis.

Thanks in advance for any feedback or bug reports.

-P-