[Foundation-l] Google Analytics on Wikimania site

Robert Rohde rarohde at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 19:22:24 UTC 2007


On 10/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way of blocking Google Analytics code from working on
> Wikimedia sites, when some random admin decides to put it into site
> interface code?


 Adding:

www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js

to the spam blacklist comes to mind, since that URL is required to install
Analytics.


-Robert Rohde

(P.S. I'm assuming the blacklist applies to admin edits in the Mediawiki
namespace the same as to any other edit.  I've never tested to see if that
is true.)


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