How does installing 3rd party analytics software help the WMF accomplish its goals?
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
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 loading of external sites entirely (I understand hu:wp uses a web bug that isn't Google), perhaps at least listing the sites somewhere centrally viewable?
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.
-- daniel
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