Find a New Way to Update Popular and Trending Pages

[harshkhandeparkar]

• The UA-XXXXXX-XX google analytics id is deprecated and hence the googleAnalytics extension no longer works.
• Need to find a way to use the new "head" tags of Google Analytics and adapt the jobs script accordingly.

[shikharish]

What is the difference between the Popular and Trending sections?

[harshkhandeparkar]

Popular is the list of all-time most visited pages and Trending is list of pages with recent spikes in traffic.

[shikharish]

Does the popular section use an extension?

In update_top_trending.sh, it uses a script pwb.py but I cannot find it anywhere.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Does the popular section use an extension?

I don't think so. Just the newest pages section uses an extension.

In update_top_trending.sh, it uses a script pwb.py but I cannot find it anywhere.

pwb.py just calls PyWikiBot. The login and updatestatistics are the main scripts. pwb.py will be installed on build.

[shikharish]

Pls assign me this issue.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Go ahead!

[shikharish]

Popular and Trending pages both use the same script. Both are broken. Maybe edit the issue title to add Popular pages too.

[shikharish]

@harshkhandeparkar We can use another Google Analytics extension to fix this, but that raises privacy concerns. This is from the extension page:

The GoogleAnalyticsMetrics extension may not be appropriate for your site if you have data security and privacy concerns. The extensions inserts JavaScript code in each page served, and the code causes the client to contact Google services to process and aggregate data. Your site's users will be subjected to tracking and data mining regardless of the Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control browser settings.

Should we use this?

[harshkhandeparkar]

Ideally not. Is there any extension that tracks page views without using any external service?

[shikharish]

Ideally not. Is there any extension that tracks page views without using any external service?

Not one I could find. There is a TopTenPages extension but that only counts unique page views and arranges acc to all time.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Ideally not. Is there any extension that tracks page views without using any external service?

Not one I could find. There is a TopTenPages extension but that only counts unique page views and arranges acc to all time.

Is there any way to expose an option to the user to disable google analytics?

[shikharish]

Could not find any.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Can google analytics be configured to only record anonymous view count and nothing else?

[shikharish]

Yes we can specify which metrics we want the extension to record.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Then I think we can go ahead with this.

[shikharish]

Alright lets do this!

[shikharish]

@harshkhandeparkar Turns out it is not possible to configure which metrics we want to send in Google Analytics. It would include many metrics which are neither needed nor privacy focused. I say we remove the Trending pages section completely. We can replace the Popular pages with a simple extension like HitCounters.

[harshkhandeparkar]

@harshkhandeparkar Turns out it is not possible to configure which metrics we want to send in Google Analytics. It would include many metrics which are neither needed nor privacy focused. I say we remove the Trending pages section completely. We can replace the Popular pages with a simple extension like HitCounters.

Would it be possible to integrate the HitCounters page on the main page?

[shikharish]

Yes, we could make a template from it.

[harshkhandeparkar]

Yes, we could make a template from it.

Nice. Go ahead with this.

[harshkhandeparkar]

@shikharish any update?