From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Advice for New City Wikis

October 30, 2009

Update 11.10.09: CantonWiki.org has launched. Through my affiliation with ArborWiki.org, I was approached by a guy that wants to start a city wiki for Canton, MI. He had some specific questions about starting a city wiki and building momentum. Here is my response, which I felt is appropriate for anybody wishing to start a wiki: [...]

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Welcome Aboard, Piwik!

October 23, 2009

I just installed Piwik, an open source website analytics package. It is running alongside Google Analytics to give us another set of data to track the wiki’s performance and visit statistics. Why, you might ask? Well, mainly just for fun. Google Analytics is great and provides the basis for our monthly Site Statistics posts. But [...]

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September 2009 Site Stats

October 13, 2009

Visits to the wiki increased 20% over August and most of the other site usage metrics (pages per visit, time on site, etc.) improved as well. Additionally, 12.55% of visits resulted in a “goal conversion”. In our case, that means a new account setup, an edit made to an article, or a user login. Most [...]

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