2009/6/4 Finne Boonen hennar@gmail.com:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 17:00, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
What exactly are people looking for that isn't available from stats.grok.se that isn't a privacy concern? I had assumed that people kept installing these bugs because they wanted source network break downs per-article and other clear privacy violations.
On top of views/page I'd be interested in keywords used, entry&exit points, path analysis when people are editing (do they save/leave/try to find help/...) #edit starts, #submitted edits that don't get saved.
Path analysis is a big one. All that other stuff, if it won't violate privacy, would be fantastically useful to researchers, internal and external, in ways we won't have even thought of yet, and help us considerably to improve the projects.
(This would have to be given considerable thought from a security/hacker mindset - e.g. even with IPs stripped, listing user pages and user page edits would likely give away an identity. Talk pages may do the same. Those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure someone has already made a list of what they could work out even with IPs anonymised or even stripped.)
- d.