Re: About Webizen wiki stats

Pardon me if it’s been mentioned before, but things such as google analytics would be helpful for such statistics.
I’m pretty sure that saying that will raise a public flamewar but there are may be similar tools carrying less controversy?

JC


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From: Coralie Mercier coralie@w3.org
Reply: Coralie Mercier coralie@w3.org
Date: 28 Mar 2014 at 15:04:50
To: Jeff Jaffe jeff@w3.org
Cc: public-webizen@w3.org public-webizen@w3.org
Subject:  About Webizen wiki stats

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> Hi Jeff,
>  
> This is wrt https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen having been viewed 16+K times,
> and whether the stats and viewers might yield any action.
>  
> As promised, I asked the systems team for Webizen wiki stats (from
> inception on 10-Mar till now) and some form of identification.
>  
> Jean-Gui reported that the wiki being public, there is no way to find who
> visited it. The IPs are available, but this isn't very helpful, since
> thousands of different people may be behind the same IP.
>  
> Jean-Gui looked further at the stats and was very surprised to find out
> that 6 to 7 8th of the requests are for comparisons of revisions. He
> stopped looking when it became apparent no useful stat could be obtained.
>  
> I have no guess at what that means other than we might not have exactly
> the amount of popularity I thought the 16+K number meant.
>  
> Coralie
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JC Verdie

Received on Friday, 28 March 2014 14:30:20 UTC