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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Awesome, thanks!