[Foundation-l] Google Analytics test

[Andrew Whitworth]

>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.

Exactly, this is only an experiment and we will gather useful information from it whether we try and push things to a new level or not. Many book authors have been crying for some time now for a way to get some readership statistics about their books. The idea of enabling page hit counters has been brought up and shot down on a regular basis. We've applied for an account to the page counter on the toolserver but with no reply. 

>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

The issue of enabling page counters has been brought up before on bugzilla. See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5667 for one example. It's not that we aren't looking for an in-house solution, but it seems like most options have been exhausted. I would be thrilled to learn that there was an in-house logging mechanism available to us to use. We know that one doesnt currently exist in a usable form, and that the techs have more important things to do then throw one together for us.

--Andrew Whitworth
 

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