[Mediawiki-l] Open Web Analytics for MediaWiki

[Peter Adams]

Hi all -

Thanks to help from folks in the MediaWiki development community,  
I've recently released the first release candidate of Open Web  
Analytics (OWA) framework for MediaWiki. OWA is a generic web  
analytics framework that comes with tight integration for WordPress  
and MediaWiki (phpBB and Gallery2 are in the works).

In you are interested, see http://www.openwebanalytics.com for the  
v1.1.0rc1 version of the code and install instructions. This release  
candidate Installs as a MediaWiki extension and has been tested under  
MediaWiki v1.10.0.

MediaWiki specific features include:

* Track visitors by MediaWiki user name or e-mail address
* Track MediaWiki Page Types (Articles, Special Pages, Categories, etc.)
* Reporting accessible via Special Page
* Track multiple MediaWiki instances using the same OWA database
* Uses MediaWiki user privilege model for access control

Core Features:

* Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
* Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
* Multiple Web Site Support - track any number of web sites and view  
statistics in aggregate or by site
* Log events can be written to the database asynchronously.
* Click-streams - view the actual click-stream of each visitor
* Click Tracking - Track where exactly on a web page users are  
clicking and view clicks by browser type
* Click Heat Maps - view a heat map of where users are clicking on  
your web pages
* Google Maps - map your visitors on Google Maps
* Google Earth (KML) - view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML  
file export
* RSS/ATOM subscription tracking - track unique feed readers, reader  
types, and feed requests
* Visitor Aging - understand the age of your repeat visitors.
* Canned and Custom Time Periods - generate reports using pre-defined  
reporting periods or custom date ranges
* Referring Page Analysis - View the title, anchor text, and  
surrounding text of inbound links from referring web pages
* View visits by user agent
* Track entry and exit pages
* Track pages by custom page types

There is a still _a lot_ left to be done here but hopefully this will  
come in handy for those of you looking to add analytics to MediaWikis.

Thanks in advance for any feedback or bug reports.

-P-