9 Nov
2015
9 Nov
'15
1:17 p.m.
For what it's worth, several of the public xwikis I hosted have huge
spam issues and the number of users will be fed by that... Sometimes I
have rages and manage to fight against them, but for the platforms it
went over 500, I abandoned....
Maybe counting the number of users who have create more than pages is a
lot more expressive?
I do not find it very convincing to state that access stats cost an
amount because they need to be written to the DB. Such analytics should
have a way to be streamlined into memory and only written to disk once
in a while (even... once every five minutes). Of course, this means
there may be some stats loss, but that is ok, crashes are not to be
entirely cared for.
Paul
vincent(a)massol.net <mailto:vincent@massol.net>
9 novembre 2015 11:56
Thanks for your feedbacks!
If you check how all enterprise software out there do pricing, it’s
almost always per user. So IMO counting users is a good approximation
of the size of an xwiki instance (you don’t create users for nothing
in general). It’s an easy figure to get (I can probably implement it
in 1 hour), while counting activity is much more complex to do. Also
note that it’s possible to regularly clean the AS and if you have a
very large wiki you’ll probably want to do this regularly.
Counting page views is also difficult from inside XWiki since you’d
need to introduce a new table in the DB for it but more importantly
it’s going to affect your performances when you save that number.
I agree that number of documents could be interesting too but XE by
default comes with over 700 and when users install extensions more are
added without it being a good indicator of usage of the wiki. Still I
think it’s interesting.
So what I’m proposing to do right now is sending:
* number of wikis
* number of users
* number of documents
* number of AS events (count on the table)
I’m not saying it’s enough but let’s talk incremental and we can
always add new metrics later on as we learn how to get them.
So WDYT about adding those for now? Do you see any privacy issues?
Thanks
-Vincent
On 9 Nov 2015 at 11:29:17, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
(gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com) wrote:
Why not the amount of Activity Stream events during the last month? It's
still very anonymous (since we don't know what exactly are these events)
and relevant.
+ the amount of pages view during the last month (a wiki could have a lot
of pages view meanwhile it is not edited often)
I think these 2 metrics could be good indicators.
Thanks,
Guillaume
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