Dan Rosenthal wrote:
Installing Google Analytics, even for our own
purposes, is a bad idea.
For one, it creates a link to google that is not necessarily what we
want; it would be a big target for people to try and hack, and it
presents tempting security risks on Google's end. Not to mention, as
far as I know the program is proprietary.
If we're going to do something like this, it should be open source,
and it should something that we can internally install and monitor
without external options. That is, again, assuming we do something
like that. That's not a foregone presumption. I'm not convinced that
we need to be tracking user behavior at this point in time, or that
the tradeoffs for doing so are worth any benefits, or that doing so is
in furtherance of our mission.
The plain pageview stats are already available.
Erik Zachte has been doing some work on other stats.
<http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/VisitorsSampledLogRequests.htm>
If I were to compile a wishlist of stats things:
1. stats.grok.se data for non-Wikipedia projects
2. A better interface for
stats.wikimedia.org - There's a lot of data
there, but it can be hard to find it and its not very publicized. The
only reason I knew about the link above is because someone pointed it
out to me once and I bookmarked it.
3. Pageview stats at <http://dammit.lt/wikistats/> in files based on
projects. It would be a lot easier for people at the West Flemish
Wikipedia to analyze statistics themselves if they didn't have to
download tons of data they don't need.
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Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)