I suggest keep the bug on Wikimedia's servers and using a tool which relies on SQL databases. These could be shared with the toolserver where the "official" version of the analysis tool runs and users are enabled to run their own queries (so taking a tool with a good database structure would be nice). With that the toolserver users could set up their own cool tools on that data.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:34 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/4 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
David Gerard schrieb:
Keeping well-meaning admins from putting Google web bugs in the JavaScript is a game of whack-a-mole. Are there any technical workarounds feasible? If not blocking the
Perhaps the solution would be to simply set up our own JS based usage tracker? There are a few options available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software, and for starters, the backend could run on the toolserver. Note that anything processing IP addresses will need special approval on the TS.
If putting that on the toolserver passes privacy policy muster, that'd be an excellent solution. Then external site loading can be blocked.
(And if the toolservers won't melt in the process.)
- d.
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