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Woogle4Media can optionally equipped with an addon for scientifc instrumentation. The purpose of this addon is to log user activities within the Wiki during scientific studies. The extension allows to modify certain Woogle (UI) settings for different groups of users and provides a confirmation screen that allows to gain user's explicit consent for logging data.
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Woogle4Media can optionally equipped with an addon for scientifc instrumentation. The purpose of this addon is to log user activities within the Wiki during scientific studies.
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== Features ==
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The instrumentation addon has four core features:
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* Configuring different runtime behaviour of the Woogle extension for different user groups (all variables in WoogleConfig can be used for this)
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* Automatically generating an anonymous user id and randomly assigning an experimental group for users
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* Transparent evaluation for users (initial participation dialog for informed consent; watching and changing evaluation settings in MediaWiki preferences)
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* Powerful logging of user behaviour in the Wiki resulting in a CSV log file (see below for details)
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While the instrumentation addon was designed for evaluating Woogle, it should be easy to adapt the concept and the code for other evaluation tasks.
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== Privacy ==
Note that the addon was designed to protect user's privacy as much as possible:
Note that the addon was designed to protect user's privacy as much as possible:
* The instrumentation addon is '''disabled by default''' and needs to be explicitly configured by the Wiki adminstrator
* The instrumentation addon is '''disabled by default''' and needs to be explicitly configured by the Wiki adminstrator
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** See [[Woogle4MediaWiki/instrumentation.log]] for a complete list of logged user action
** See [[Woogle4MediaWiki/instrumentation.log]] for a complete list of logged user action
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See also [[Woogle4MediaWiki/Privacy]] for more general informaton on privacy in Woogle.
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== See also ==
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* [[Woogle4MediaWiki/Privacy]] for more general informaton on privacy in Woogle.
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* [[Woogle4MediaWiki/Admin_manual#Instrumentation_addon|Woogle4MediaWiki/Admin_manual]] for information on enabling the instrumentation addon