** Changed in: mahara/22.04
Milestone: 22.04.2 => 22.04.3
** Changed in: mahara/21.10
Milestone: 21.10.4 => 21.10.5
** Changed in: mahara/21.04
Milestone: 21.04.6 => 21.04.7
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1978425
Title:
Change site registration to opt-out
Status in Mahara:
Confirmed
Status in Mahara 21.04 series:
Confirmed
Status in Mahara 21.10 series:
Confirmed
Status in Mahara 22.04 series:
Confirmed
Status in Mahara 22.10 series:
Confirmed
Bug description:
It is difficult to know how many Mahara sites are there in the world.
Since registration is opt-in, the majority of the sites are not
sending basic data back to the project, which doesn't give us a good
view of where Mahara is used and by how many people.
It would be good to gather better data about the use of Mahara in an
anonymised way to help shape and focus the product and know what
features are heavily used and which ones aren't. The current
statistics don't necessarily give a useful picture to help us with
that. Therefore, we should revise the registration data to collect
more meaningful data and make it an opt-out rather than an opt-in. We
would still keep data anonymised and aggregated to prevent collecting
personal information.
We would exclude all sites that have the config variable
'productionmode = false' set so that we don't count sites twice or
more when there is only one production site and several non-production
sites. Whether the config variable can be read or whether that should
be done differently, will need to be determined.
On sites with 'productionmode = false', we'd state on the page that
this site is not reporting and don't show the form. We will mention
though what happens when productionmode is turned to 'true' an that
they can then opt out.
On mahara.org (customisation):
We will keep the weekly reporting and need to devise a mechanism to
track that weekly data, e.g. available as CSV download because
currently we only have a current view at https://mahara.org/stats/
(site admins only). The data does not need to sit on the site. The
stats page does load very slowly because it's trying to fetch the data
in real time it seems and the graph doesn't display any more any way.
It is nice to have a quick view, but improving that page could be
phase 2.
Apparently, we already keep historical data.
Run a cron early Monday morning to send the CSV file to a specified
email address
Text on /admin/registersite.php:
Your Mahara site is registered with the Mahara project automatically.
Registration is free and helps us get a picture of the Mahara
installations around the world and how they are used.
The Mahara project does not collect personal, person-identifiable
data. Most data is collected in aggregated form to allow the project
to identify trends. Below you can see what data is collected and sent
on a weekly basis.
If you have any questions for the data collection, please get in
touch. ['get in touch' linked to i...@mahara.org with the subject
'Site registration data collection')
Data included (see spreadsheet)
Opt-out from the data collection 'Yes/No' switch
Help text below: You can opt out from sending anonymised data to the Mahara
project for your site. We encourage you to keep your site registered to assist
the project in the product development.
Text on /admin/index.php:
Anonymised data from your site helps the Mahara project get a picture
of Mahara installations around the world.
In the panel where it says 'Registration', change that to 'Data
collection'.
Move elsewhere:
Move the plugin version numbers to their respective items in the
'Plugin administration'.
The spreadsheet contains:
- the fields to retain
- the fields to add
- the fields to move
- ideally the page can be split up into categories to group the information
more easily when viewed on screen. In the CSV export, the categories should
come as their own column for filtering purposes
- new column 'Enabled' where a 'Yes' or 'No' is placed depending on the
setting in the configuration or for the artefact and block types if it is
hidden or not. That way, we have context for any data for block types and
artefacts when the values are '0'.
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