Extension:ClickTracking

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This extension has been superseded by Extension:EventLogging

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ClickTracking Release status: stable
Implementation	API
Description	Track user clicks on JavaScript items
Author(s)	Nimish Gautam, Trevor Parscal
MediaWiki	1.19.1
License	GPL v2
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This feature is used to track users' navigation around the wiki by logging each click they make. It has a couple of API modules.

ClickTracking was developed specifically to be run as part of the Beta rollout (of the Vector skin and Enhanced editing toolbar in 2010) on Wikimedia wikis; it may or may not be useful to third-party users. The extension can of course be run on non-WMF wikis, but documentation is very limited.

ClickTracking logs the user's edit counts using functionality and a database table implemented by Extension:UserDailyContribs, so you need to install that as well.

This extension was migrated from Extension:UsabilityInitiative. During this migration this extension was ported to make use of ResourceLoader functionality, making it only compatible with MediaWiki 1.17+.

If you are upgrading from the UsabilityInitiative (MediaWiki 1.16 compatible) version, you may need to pay attention to the change in naming for configuration variables.

See README for an example.

Installation

1. Get the extension with distributor or git and drop it into MediaWiki directory /extensions
2. Setup your LocalSettings.php:

require_once( "$IP/extensions/UserDailyContribs/UserDailyContribs.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ClickTracking/ClickTracking.php" );

for more details about the settings see the README file.

1. Run php maintenance/update.php from the command line (see update.php and also here)