Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Archive/Better statistics

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Better statistics

N Proposes a legal change / too privacy invasive

Problem: Wikinews authors cannot check whether the news articles are reposted in other sites, or copied somewhere, or referenced from other sites. This prevents Wikinews from following the users' interests, prevents from coöperation with broad readers.
Who would benefit: Wikinews authors and, a little later, all Wikinews readers.
Proposed solution: allow Wikinews authors to see referrals to the articles, to know from what source the readers appear, possibly with some extension.
More comments:
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Proposer: PereslavlFoto (talk) 22:49, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how we can do the tracking.. Are there open standards that are not privacy invasive (say unlike Google tracking) that can provide this ? Or do you want to see raw incoming referrals ? Honestly with the current level of privacy enforcement by browsers, i'm not sure if referrals still give us this level of insight any longer. Whatever it is, I'm guessing you want more than this? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:30, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The goal is, to see what sites refer to Wikinews, and what are the sources of interest to Wikinews articles. The link you provide shows us the volume of interest, yet we would like to see the sources of interest. --PereslavlFoto (talk) 11:38, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! We have discussed this as a team and decided this indeed is too privacy invasive, so I'm going to archive this proposal. Referrer data currently exists, but only for all projects combined, and only as aggregation (external non-search, external search, internal, and direct). I don't think legal would agree to providing raw referrer data on a per-article basis, but we have asked. Thanks for your participation in the survey! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]