April 7, 2010 update

April 7, 2010 update

Howie, Nimish, Tomasz, and I spent a few minutes chatting today about where things stand. Next steps:

  • Experiment with a Piwik installation on Wikimedia Foundation's internal wiki. It gives us real data, and we don't have to worry about taking down a live public site. Once we get some experience with the tool, User:Erik Zachte will be our liaison with the Piwik community.
  • Howie has invited Omniture to come talk to us about their tool. They'll hopefully swing by in two or three weeks. We'll be sure to document our notes here.
  • Tomasz is talking to Google Analytics to get more information.
  • I'll take a pass at fleshing out a rough framework for how to think through the build vs buy / open source vs proprietary questions.

Feedback welcome!

Eekim20:50, 7 April 2010

I have looked into Piwiki and found the Mediawiki Piwik plug-in to access Piwik-results as a "Special page". (Extension:Piwik_Integration)

Goldzahn00:19, 11 April 2010

Thanks! Have you played with it on an installation of Mediawiki by any chance?

Eekim08:12, 12 April 2010

Now, I´ve installed Piwiki on my local mediawiki. Piwiki is functioning, but I don´t see the Piwiki-specialpage in the Wiki. I will try to learn how to write a plug-in, but I´m not an experienced programmer.

Goldzahn01:00, 13 April 2010

Excellent! Let us know your experiences here; would love to hear if you find it useful. Nimish is going to install it on an internal wiki as well. Looking forward to sharing notes.

Eekim14:20, 13 April 2010
 
 
 

It seems that piwiki has a Plugin for Click Heatmap. I will try to install that. What I didn´t see is "Event Tracking" see Event Tracking at Google Analytics.

What I also saw is that the Extension:UsabilityInitiative, that is active at Wikipedia, uses Click Tracking as part of the Beta rollout.

What I like is the programming language R which is able to W:Cluster analysis. We have got a Wikibook Wikibooks:Data Mining Algorithms In R. But clustering works with numbers, not with click paths. I wonder if it is possible to transform click paths into numbers.

Goldzahn14:20, 18 April 2010

Thanks, Goldzahn. I updated the Piwik page with this information. I'm sure it's possible to do cluster analysis on click paths.

Eekim09:03, 21 April 2010
 

Checking it out. I don't know much about this area. Does this only measure traffic? There are a lot of other analytics that would help us.

Randomran17:32, 18 April 2010

Piwik is oriented toward traffic analysis, although it could potentially be extended for other uses. We see it as a potential first step, not as a catch all. Check out Task force/Analytics/Requirements and make sure the other analytics you'd like to see captured are recorded/linked there. I know many were discussed in the community health task force.

Eekim09:05, 21 April 2010

I put in an entire section for community health. Some of the stuff was already covered in activity, but I felt it was valuable enough to understand metrics from a different angle, even if there's an overlap.

Randomran19:29, 21 April 2010

Awesome, thanks!

Eekim18:55, 26 April 2010