Hoi,
Thanks, I hope Tim is reading the list and he will take the time to comment.
As per privacy, I don't think pms users would mind having data sent to Google. I'd rather expect most small communities to welcome such a move, as it would serve as evidence that localizing the search engine in their languages may make sense. Anyway, this is but an opinion based on what I hear from a number of channels.
No matter how we get it, what a small linguistic community needs to know for its marketing is: 1) where users come from (geo-coordinates) 2) what they read 3) when they read
It would be nice to have more complicated stuff, like the rate of returning users, keywords from search engines, referring sites, etc. Yet those 3 data are enough to plan work with the press and to analyze the actual outcome.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:34 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] RFC: Google analytics
On 06/07/07, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Hoi,
I was asking myself whether small wikies could put the google analytics javascript code in their common.js UI message.
It doesn't seem to add load to the WMF server and it would give us
extremely
valuable data on our users (including the list of subjects they mostly
read,
geolocation, etc).
You might want to talk to Tim Starling - I think he's working with generating better (well, any) statistics from our end, and if we have something coming down the road it might be better to hang on rather than using an external source. If nothing else, the privacy (and PR) implications of sending all our reader data to Google are... not wonderful.