On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:04 PM Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 1:33 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've updated the HitCounters extension in
gerrit[1] and made it installable
via composer.[2]
Please feel free to file bugs against this in phabricator.[3]
Awesome, thanks Mark.
I think this extension should be included by default in Mediawiki. It
is so useful I don't understand why folks have to do something special
to get it.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Removing_hit_counters_f…
Thanks Bryan.
I'm not sure about this:
* useless metric
We find it very useful for the development lifecycle. Specifically,
Step 5, feedback. We use it to determine what pages should be extra
polished, and what users are having problems with.
Hmmm....
* better served by an extension
* Extension:Google Analytics or similar
I'm not sure it is a good idea to track users or force users to
surrender their data to Google. Wiki administrators should not set
that policy for a user. Agreeing to tracking and surrendering data
should be a user's choice.
Jeff