Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2018-02-14

2018-02-20 Thread Pine W
The reason that I'd like to know how many people clicked individual links is that I'd like to be able to track how people navigate from LearnWiki (or whatever its final name is) pages to pages on WIkipedia, Commons, Wikidata, etc. At this time I don't feel that there's much value to my project

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2018-02-14

2018-02-20 Thread Brian Wolff
Umm, why would you want that over just looking at the page views for a page? If its a, people navigating to a page internally vs externally, it would be probably better to try to convince analytics to break down the page view data between local and external referrers instead of relying on a url

Re: [Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2018-02-14

2018-02-20 Thread Pine W
Regarding "There seems to be interest in reviving the WMF hosted URL shortener service", +1 from me, particularly if there will be public logs of how many people (i.e. not bots) clicked a particular short link in a certain period of time that is long enough to provide some anonymity but short

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar, 2018-02-14

2018-02-20 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello all! Here are the minutes from this week's meeting: * There seems to be interest in reviving the WMF hosted URL shortener service * Ongoing work on preparing the move of WMF infrastructure to PHP7 * No IRC meeting on February 21 * RFC under discussion: MediaWiki support for Composer