Raul Kern wrote:
2011/4/19 River Tarnell r.tarnell@ieee.org:
My understanding is that merely displaying the "Like" button allows Facebook to track the browsing of anyone who visits the page, whether they have a Facebook account or not.
While I'm sure Facebook is a lovely company that has only its users' best interests at heart, it is probably a good idea not to enable third-party user tracking services on Wikimedia websites, as a matter of principle if nothing else.
So it's better to find other hosting provider for chapters web site?
I think it's better to just not use a "like" button. :-)
You can have passive "share" links instead, though. For example: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks.
The chapter sites being hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation makes sense, mostly as the Wikimedia Foundation is fairly familiar with how to manage and maintain websites. If it's analytics that you want, that's being worked on (as far as I'm aware): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/OWA.
MZMcBride