Extra info in Footer - xDocFooter Revamp 3

[vmassol]

Generally speaking, I agree with Michael’s points.

@MichaelHamann

We currently don’t collect any statics about viewers. Before we decide to display them somewhere we first need a proposal to implement such statistics and whether they should be enabled by default. Also, it is not clear what a “viewer” is, are these different people that viewed the page, does this include bots (crawlers), … I think this is rather something that a statistics application should add. We already have a way for extensions to add content in that footer through the content footer UI extension point so I think this should rather be a feature request for an extension like the Matomo extension.

Good point. I started discussing this topic in Move xwiki-platform-statistics to XWiki Attic - #10 by vmassol. It seems heavy to have to install an external system like matomo to get this type of feature. Also, I believe we might be better off with an XWiki stats api as Matomo might be replaced by something else in the future and we need to allow for other implementations.

@MichaelHamann

We currently also don’t have the information about all editors of a page easily available so it would also be significant work to compile that information.

Another good point. We probably need to work on our history store in the future and be able to query it (like finding all the authors of changes in a performant way - Right now it’s doable but we need to iterate over all revisions). Ofc we could rely on the stats module but I feel it would be even better to refactor our history store to provide that info.

@MichaelHamann

• This proposal puts a lot of weight on who modified the page. I’m not sure this is warranted or if a wiki shouldn’t be focused on the content and not who created it. Also, this could create a false impression that people contributed equally to a page while in reality most of the content was created by a single person.

BTW about contributions to a page, we already have the blame feature (available from the “code” viewer). We’re missing a screenshot for it at https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/Features/DocumentLifecycle/#HCode BTW. It currently only lists the last author for a line but with a more performant history store we could imagine listing all authors for a line (see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/?viewer=code&showLastAuthors=true ).

BTW2, Caty had done some mockups to provide more info on pages at https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/CollaborativeEditing

The list of authors could also be listed in the Information tab maybe.

Thanks