Last modified: 2014-11-07 07:15:39 UTC
We'd like to have a way to keep better track of new MediaWiki installations. To do this, I've talked to a couple of other people interested in this (e.g. Jamie Thingelstad from WikiApiary) and we've developed an idea for setting up a ping server that would new wikis could ping with their information at installation time.
See 54426 for the start of the server side of this.
cue privacy advocates in 3..2..1..
(In reply to comment #2) > cue privacy advocates in 3..2..1.. No doubt. Hopefully making this opt-in will make this acceptable.
Mark, instead of creating a lot of bugs about this, would you mind to create first a RFC on mediawiki.org? It's not clear to me how this would be implemented. We need to know what happens if the user opts-in on this. A HTTP request is made to a centralized server sending all the info? Or it will send the URL of the wiki and the central server will send back another request (probably delayed so the wiki has been set up completely) to retrieve that info? Having a lot of disperse bugs without a clear definition/design about how it would be implemented won't help much in developing this.
(In reply to comment #4) > Mark, instead of creating a lot of bugs about this, would you mind to create > first a RFC on mediawiki.org? Well, the bugs are created now. But I can do an RFC as well. I was planning on starting a discussion about this next week.
Mark, I can help fill in the RFC page time permitting. Share the URL here when you start it.
RFC: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation
I'd love this for mw statistics/wikistats, people who opt-in at install time would actively report a new wiki install out there instead of us trying to spider the web to find them and add them to wikistats.wmflabs.org etc.
I can implement the actual logging and aggregation if someone makes the UI for the prompt.
(In reply to comment #8) > I'd love this for mw statistics/wikistats, people who opt-in at install time > would actively report a new wiki install out there instead of us trying to > spider the web to find them and add them to wikistats.wmflabs.org etc. Yes, that's also needed for wikiteam (which is a heavy user of the current wiki lists): https://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/issues/detail?id=59 However the focus of this proposal seems quite different? See also <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation#Data_sent>
