[Search wiki] Urchin

[jer]

It's only on the actual wiki, "search.wiki.com/" pages, not the  
search results or social pages at all.  Many or all of Wikia's wikis  
have analytics on them, but I suppose in this case it's rather ironic :)

Jer

On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Rainer Blome wrote:

> Wikia pages are analyzed with the help of
> www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js .  My understandíng is that this  
> is a
> web service that analyzes which pages are visited and how often.
>
> Because of the nature of a traffic analysis service, the provider
> (Google) can see how often Wikia visitors are visiting which pages.
> Even more:  If the provider wants to, they can even compile a surf
> profile for the requesting IP addresses.
> In case it's not blatantly obvious: this is a privacy issue.
>
> Is it documented anywhere that this is done?
>
> Is this necessary?
>
> How are the results used?
>
> Wikia is playing into the hands of its competitor, here (:-).
> If it's necessary, why doesn't Wikia do this on its own?
>
> Rainer
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