I would suggest using the Statsd counters that WikimediaEvents exposes to MediaWiki JavaScript (including Gadgets and user scripts!). This is a public API, with aggregate data publicly accessible via Grafana.
These require no server-side configurations, schemas, or private data access. And (on the flipside) also do not record any personal information.
To use it, call mw.track( counter.gadget_<gadgetname>.<metricname> ) in your gadget.
For example:
mw.track( 'counter.gadget_VariantAlly.storage_empty_dialog' );
To make visualising easier, I've put together a generic dashboard to plot these:
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Timo Tijhof
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, at 09:33, psnbaotg via Wikitech-l wrote:
Hi there,
I'm User:Diskdance, and recently I'm developing a default gadget for Chinese Wikipedia enhancing MediaWiki's variant handling logic, and under certain circumstances a prompt is shown at page load asking for a user's preferred variant. Consider it as a conditional Cookie notice, and its English screenshot can be found at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VariantAlly-En.png.
I know this can be very disruptive on UX, so I tend to be careful about its negative impact on page views. If the gadget can collect telemetry data about the prompt's display frequency and user interactions (using e.g. WikimediaEvents), I can know about its possible impact.
Is this possible? It would be much appreciated if anybody could provide assistance.
Best wishes,
Diskdance
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