[Foundation-l] Google Analytics test

[Brion Vibber]

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Andrew Whitworth wrote:
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>  I've proposed a solution that unregistered users could be
> tracked by default (testing wgUserName == null), but registered users
> would need to opt-in explicitly. After all, I feel that information
> about our readers is far more important then the same information
> about our editors.

Sending complete logging information on our visitors to a third party
would still be an absolute violation of our privacy policy, so probably
a no-no. :)

The opt-in-only experiments are at least interesting, though, and should
give people a taste for what kind of aggregate info we can make use of.

> 1b) Another related idea is that individual books could be tracked
> for readership patterns, while the whole remainder of the wikibooks
> project could remain script-free. Notification templates could be
> used to indicate which books the scripts were active on. A book could
> be tracked for a month or so at a time. We could track a handful of
> books at once, and then change which books we track on a regular
> basis.

I think it'd be a lot nicer to do the tracking for all pages and all
books, from our in-house logging system. All hits to the HTTP proxies
are logged, and this log stream is available internally in its entirety,
with some sampling for diagnostic use, and some filtered
(privacy-sanitized) samples are currently sent to third party
researchers out of that.

I believe there's some ongoing work from a couple of parties on getting
useful data out of the log stream for our own use. (Isn't somebody
trying to get something new going via toolserver related to this also?)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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