Filter Special:WatchAnalytics User watch statistics by defined category

[bryandamon]

I love the ability under User watch statistics to "Filter by page category" or "Filter by user group", however a wiki can have a lot of categories relevant to a group/department and MediaWiki user groups might be too coarse. Having the ability to filter users by a specific category like "Department" would allow managers of that department to view how well their reports are engaged in watching the wiki. Having a departments score aggregated would be another plus.

Similar to #9 (Filter Special:WatchAnalytics pages based on user groups).

[jamesmontalvo3]

You're saying make WatchAnalytics have it's own separate concept for groups of people? Aside from MediaWiki's built in groups? How would you envision a person gets added to such a group?

[bryandamon]

This is is very specific to me, but could be generalized for other enterprise use. The wikis I've set-up are for companies that always have departments. All the users are added to a category of their respective department (engineering, sales, purchasing, etc.) and there is a super-category that contains all the department categories.

While on the Watch Analytics: Users page, I am envisioning a dropdown that can sort users by the department category (or any category) they are in. Is that reasonably achievable?

[jamesmontalvo3]

Oh okay so you actually categorize User:Someusername pages to give them lightweight groups. Conceivably someone could have multiple groups of this type. For example, one person may have all of these apply: Sales department, New York office, Manager, Mac-user, involved in XYZ project...

I think that should be fairly straightforward to handle with MW categories. It kind of begs to integrate with SMW and/or Cargo, but that would add complexity.

[bryandamon]

Yea, I've been using Cargo, but I think that just categories would make it more general than a Cargo or SMW specific method (or catch for either) would be.