On Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
Should http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking get a "<blink>Do not use, go for EventLogging instead</blink>" box?
I'm not sure, to be honest. There's some overlap (both provide some facility for pushing analytic data to the servers) but it pretty much ends there. ClickTracking uses the MediaWiki API as the logging endpoint which ended up being unsuitable for our production environment, and it doesn't provide tooling for structuring data, which made managing concurrent data collection jobs challenging. But it can still be a perfectly adequate solution for smaller wikis, depending on the use-case.
AFAIK, ClickTracking depends on UserDailyContribs. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserDailyContribs states that UserDailyContribs is still deployed on WMF servers. Is phasing out UserDailyContribs also planned? It's still listed on https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt
It's a good idea! I'll check around first to see if it's being used by anyone. It's possible that there are analysts that utilize this data even if there is no code that depends on it. (Paging Dario..!)
Are the remaining two open ClickTracking bug reports WONTFIX? Shall the Bugzilla component "ClickTracking" be closed for new bug entry?
Well, IWONTFIXTHEM. I got burnt by ClickTracking once or twice (mostly my own stupidity, I'll admit) and I never want to deal with it again. The extension's original authors have likewise moved on to bigger and better things. I propose we wait a bit and see if any third-party users come out of the woodwork, in which case we should certainly retain the component and try to provide some casual level of support, for the sake of the MediaWiki ecosystem. If some time passes and it turns out that we were indeed the only users, then let's close it.
-- Ori Livneh