Feature Request Aside : I would appreciate having a preference to turn on aggressive use tracking for myself -- to provide me with personal statistics about my own site usage. Currently there's nothing other than a watchlist (or hand-created/edited page) and some toolserver tools that track edits over time that offer any sort of history; no beadcrumbs or more advanced reading history is available.
SJ On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Brion Vibber<br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 8/11/09 2:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Kudos to the WMF for avoiding gratuitous reader tracking. Other >> people *are* paying attention to the privacy implications of this kind >> of user-invisible behavior. > > Yay! > > Quick note: the only sort of user tracking that we would be interested > in doing is to get aggregate information about activity habits. > > We wouldn't want to record which pages a given visitor sees, but it > could be very useful to know that X% of visitors click on N pages per > session, or that Y% of folks tend to give up if a page takes more than Z > seconds to load. As long as we can do this without creepy big-brother > databases of Everything You Do, this shouldn't infringe on anybody's > privacy. > > Of course the default assumption with any sort of long-term tracking > cookie is going to be that Evil Is Afoot(TM), so we'd want to keep > things looking squeaky clean as well: if we use tracking cookies for > statistical purpose they're more likely to be per-session cookies, not > permanent ones, and we would never use sneaky techniques to hide them > from users. > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
