Extension:PageViewInfoGA

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PageViewInfoGA Release status: beta
Description	Implements PageViewService for GoogleAnalytics
Author(s)	Femiwiki Team
Latest version	0.1.2
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki	1.36+
Database changes	Yes
License	GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 or later
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Parameters $wgPageViewInfoGAProfileId $wgPageViewInfoGAWriteCustomMap $wgPageViewInfoGACredentialsFile $wgPageViewInfoGAReadCustomDimensions $wgPageViewInfoGAWriteCustomDimensions $wgPageViewInfoGATrackingID
Hooks used BeforePageDisplay MediaWikiServices
Quarterly downloads	2 (Ranked 138th)
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The PageViewInfoGA extension implements PageViewService for Google Analytics.

Installation

• Requires PageViewInfo extension.
• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called PageViewInfoGA in your extensions/ folder.
• Only when installing from Git, run Composer to install PHP dependencies, by issuing composer install --no-dev in the extension directory. (See task T173141 for potential complications.)
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'PageViewInfoGA' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Install the global site tag

You need to set $wgPageViewInfoGATrackingID to the ID of the Google Analytics property to which you want to send data to send event data to Google Analytics. (See the document for details)

Create a service account and enable the Analytics API

You need to create a service account and enable Analytics API to use PageViewInfoGA. See the document for details.

Configure credentials

You need to set $wgPageViewInfoGACredentialsFile to the path to your service account credentials you have downloaded in the previous step.

Configure profile Id

You need to set $wgPageViewInfoGAProfileId to your profile Id(View ID).

(Optional) Create and Use Custom Dimensions

There is not yet a guide for creating custom dimensions on Google Analytics web interface for this extension. See the document on Google instead.

After creating custom dimensions, set $wgPageViewInfoGAWriteCustomDimensions to valid array.

// Default to:
$wgPageViewInfoGAWriteCustomDimensions = [
    "dimension1" => "mw:page_id",
    "dimension2" => "mw:page_title",
];

Finally, you can use the custom dimensions.

$wgPageViewInfoGAReadCustomDimensions = true;

See also

• Extension:Google Analytics Integration

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This extension was originally made for Femiwiki.