Save the Web Analytics Wiki
Every one’s favorite analyst, Dylan Lewis, started a Web Analytics Wiki back in June 2007. When it launched I thought it was a great idea. A community around web analytics that was a living breathing Wiki. Well then I got busy again and forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago I remembered the web analytics wiki, so I thought I would check it out and see how the community was coming. I jumped to the “recent changes” page and to my delight there were updates from that day.
I jumped to one of the pages to see what the community had developed, and lo and behold this is what met my eye.
Needless to say I was horrified. I made a couple of edits to try to get rid of some spam pages, but if this wiki is ever going to get going again it will take the community to get in there and fix it. So what do you say, let’s all get our iShovels out and get rid of a few pages of spam and help get this wiki back on track again.
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S.Hamel wrote:
You forgot to mention the address: http://www.wikiwebanalytics.com
Sadly, a great idea but getting people to really get involved is really hard. One of the thing to avoid spamming like this is to turn on membership and moderation, but that requires even more work from the moderator.
Posted on 10-Feb-08 at 9:15 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:
Stephane,
Thanks for dropping the link. I think the community could help moderate a wiki like this, which might help take some of the load off of Dylan. In any case, it is sad to see such a potentially good resource go to waste.
Posted on 11-Feb-08 at 10:31 am | Permalink
Dylan Lewis wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the kick in the pants - Today I cleaned up all spam and added captcha so all edits must be human validated. It is a shame that we had to get to the point where this was necessary - but as you pointed out spam took over. Some of the contents of the existing pages was lost in the clean-up, but now the wiki can become useable again.
Again, thanks for the kick in the pants.
Dylan
Posted on 12-Feb-08 at 1:41 am | Permalink
Michael wrote:
@Dylan
I didn’t mean it as a kick in the pants. A wiki is something the community maintains. If all the responsibility falls on one person than it is too overwhelming.
Posted on 12-Feb-08 at 9:58 am | Permalink