Ubuntu Mediawiki Tracking Visitors

Options to See If Anyone is visiting your Wiki

HitCounters

As easy as installing an extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters

• Move to your wiki's extensions directory

cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions

• Download the extension from GIT

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/HitCounters

• Enable it in LocalSettings.php by adding the line:

wfLoadExtension( 'HitCounters' );

• Run the MediaWiki update script to create necessary database tables:

php /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php

• Check Special:PopularPages

https://www.completenoobs.com/noobs/Special:PopularPages

• Can add the line in a wiki page to link to PopluarPages

{{Special:PopularPages/10}}

Error Warning

for some reason i had a clash with ContributionScores , i did not take notes on the error, it was trying to use a database entrie that was not avable (this only happened after installing HitCounters), Error only on Main_Page

• Solved:

Commented out all ContributionScores lines in LocalSettings.php, re-ran wiki update php /var/www/html/mediawiki/maintenance/update.php, worked, uncommented all ContributionScores and updated wiki again, and so some reason it worked! now both are running on wiki.

Google Analytics

• Extension used:Google Analytics Integration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Analytics_Integration

• Requires an Google Account

Extension Install

• Go to your wiki's extensions directory

cd /var/www/html/mediawiki/extensions

• Download the extension from GIT

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/googleAnalytics

• This part is done for now, go to Google Analytics Page to create a DataStream For your wiki.

Google Account

• ADD STREAM > WEB > Enter WEBSITE URL and give the STREAM a name > Click 'CREATE AND CONTINUE' > Click 'Install manually', there you will see your Unique Measurement ID in the javascript

<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-T9920YJMQ3"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'G-T9920YJMQ3');
</script>

• My Unique Measurement ID is: G-T9920YJMQ3

LocalSettings.php

• This line is required: require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";
• This Line is where you append your unique Measurement ID: $wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=MEASUREMENT_ID"></script>';

• In this Example my Measurement ID is G-T9920YJMQ3

# GoogleAnalyticsAccount
require_once "$IP/extensions/googleAnalytics/googleAnalytics.php";

$wgGoogleAnalyticsOtherCode = '<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-T9920YJMQ3"></script>';

• Should now all be working, If you now test in Google it should good.

Analyze Apache Access Logs with Log Analysis Software

you already have your apache logs: /var/log/apache2/access.log which you can already read with no app, been having problems with all app's i have been trying, will try again later.