stats.WordPress (was Re: [wp-hackers] TinyMCE 3.0 RC-1)

[Andre SC]

That's pretty much what I as thinking. I imagine something like a 
tracking pixel similar to google analytics' urchin but with a smaller 
apparant code footprint, configurable in terms of what it broadcasts and 
how often. e.g. admin data only || front-end stats only || both. Me 
thinks if it offered some real value, e.g. link juice, relevant traffic 
or usefull stats/analytics many if not most users would go for it. Those 
who want to be the www's best kept secrets can stay that way. The main 
challenge I see is scaling and capacity.

Plugin download stats for example only tells you how many downloads but 
a download isn't an indication of whether the plugin was ever actually 
installed or is in use for that matter. (if a plugin throws a fatal 
error on each and every install, maybe the author and potential users 
could be notified - can't be hard for an automated process to provide 
more usefull information than the typical  'your plugin broke my blog, 
what must i do!?' email :-)

More insteresting, how many businesses use WordPress? (I'd vote for a 
human && computer / user && adminestrator approach to organizing the 
information:-) How many wordpress installs are in various languages, 
should we be paying more attention to e.g. Chinese  and other asian, 
Arabic etc. languages and their issues?

Just my 20c in small change

ASC





DD32 wrote:
> Perhaps including a "WordPress may send anonymous usage stats" option (deselected by default) in the next release, or prefreably, as a plugin(perhaps bundled) to generate some stats of what WordPress users use, ie, PHP Version, Mysql Version, If users use this function, or that function.. 
> Quite a lot of desktop applications have something similar these days (usually automatically selected), so i assume a lot of users are comfortable with such details.
>
> Of course, You would want stats to be uniquely identified.. Probably by a hash of the blog URL(To prevent people complaining of a central directory of known functions/plugins running on any blog, as it can supposably increase the risk of installs if its known(Ref: The tinfoil brigade, on the Plugin version checking))
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> D
> (Please, No flames or counter-arguements on that Blog URL business.. A central directory wouldnt increase the risk dramatically(IMO), and allthough security would be pretty good i assume, Some people just do not want information about them or products they use stored anywhere at all, So its all of personal opinion, Not something anyone needs to be argued about right now, Leave that to whoever designs it if it ever happens)
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> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:02:23 +1100, Andre SC <andre at pixelplexus.co.za> wrote:
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>> Yup. Would be interesting to see some metrics though, not just on
>> TinyMCE but wordpress blogs ingeneral, maybe a central directory
>> including WordPress.com, indi installs with some kind of folksonomy -
>> why should del.iceous, MBL and dare i say it G etc have all the fun,
>> even a nice synergy with gravatars. Wonder if its something Automatic
>> would be interested in...
>>
>> But I digress, for day to day stuff in my experience even most html
>> knowledgeble users prefer the quick-and-easy of T.MCE, why type if you
>> can click...
>>
>> Viper007Bond wrote:
>>     
>>> Tons. While everyone on this list knows what they are doing when it comes to
>>> HTML, think about all of the grandmas and such who are completely clueless
>>> when it comes to HTML. They all prefer TinyMCE.
>>>
>>> At least that's been my experience when it comes to my clients. They ALL use
>>> it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/16/08, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Something I'd like to know is, exactly (or as exactly as possible) how
>>>> many wp.org users actually use this editor?
>>>> I always have the feeling it's completely overkill javascript bloating.
>>>>
>>>> Can't we add something relating to tinymce to the data that get sent
>>>> to wp.org by the auto-update thing ? :)
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 16, 2008 8:43 PM, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Jan 15, 2008 8:59 AM, Charles E. Frees-Melvin <charles at cefm.ca>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> I just noticed that RC-1 was relesed yesterday, has anyone tested it
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> to see
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> how it works in wordpress, with the new admin?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I have done most of the TinyMCE integration in WordPress. When they
>>>>> put up a RC, it is still a long way from final. Normally I like to
>>>>> wait for at least one bugfix before updating core. This is because the
>>>>> process is not simple. It involves carving around a lot of WP
>>>>> customizations.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I'll get my hands on it in February or March unless you beat me to
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Andy
>>>>>
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