Extension:Matomo

The Piwik Integration extension inserts your Piwik tracking code to the bottom of every page. It excludes the views of the users with 'bot' privileges (bots) and the 'protect' privileges (sysops). It also adds a Special Page to some of the statistics.

Minimum requirements

 * MediaWiki 1.14+
 * A Piwik (0.4+) installation with the site configured

Installation instructions
Please, read them carefully. They're not very difficult to understand, but **ALL** steps are necessary:


 * Create a folder called "piwik" in your extensions directory


 * Upload Piwik.php, Piwik.hooks.php, to the "piwik" folder you've just created


 * Edit your LocalSettings.php and, at the end of the file, add the following:

require_once('/extensions/piwik/Piwik.php');

$wgPiwikURL = "piwik-host.tld/dir/"; $wgPiwikIDSite = "piwik_idsite";
 * Configure the Piwik URL and site-id. To do so; edit the LocalSettings and set up the following variables:

IMPORTANT: Do not define the protocol of the $wgPiwikURL

Note: to check if the extension has succesfully installed; go to your wiki and check if the Piwik Extension is present on the bottom of the Wiki source code.
 * Enjoy the extension!

Custom variables
Disable cookies by setting the   variable to   For example: $wgPiwikDisableCookies = false;

'''To define custom javascript tags in the Piwik javascript code, its possible to define the $wgPiwikCustomJS variable. For example if you have a single setting to insert; use the following code: '''

$wgPiwikCustomJS = "_paq.push(['trackGoal', '1']);"

If you have multiple variables to define; use an array. For example: $wgPiwikCustomJS = array(   "_paq.push(['setCustomVariable', '1','environment','production']);",   "_paq.push(['setCustomVariable', '1','is_user','yes']);"   );

If you want to change the title of your pages inside the Piwik tracker, set  inside your  LocalSettings.php file

'''In case you want to include the title as, for example, "wiki/Title of the page", you can set  to   and set   to. The extension will print piwik_action_name = 'wiki/Title of the page';'''