Feature Proposal: List of recently viewed topics

Motivation

• Monitoring Traffic for the last few days.
• Requesting feedback after visits (interaction with novice users)
• TWikiAdvocacy: RecentViews and RecentVisitors as optional Wiki features.
• RecentVisitors is a WikiMatrix feature. Why? Because people ask for it!
• Should be easily extracted from Logfile that is also used by WebStatistics.
• "My RecentViews" like "My RecentChanges" is a nice feature for Wiki users.

Description and Documentation

RecentViews and RecentVisitors: Simple (and fast) listing of Topic Views for the last x days. Data extracted from LogFile (Log action: view)

Examples

Similiar to recent WebChanges, but a simple listing would allow for more and faster hits.

Impact

Too much output: Restrict report to Webs or single Topics for large Wiki Sites.

Partly implemented by UserInfoPlugin?

Implementation

Log action "view" already records topic, visitor, timestamp. Just "grep" the matching lines and provide a simple listing.

-- Contributors: JohannKappacher - 29 Jul 2008

Discussion

I do this as a side effect of much more information gathering in TWikiStatsPlugin - though its not released yet, I can say, yes, its very very easy, but if you go too far, you start to slow down yout TWiki quite a bit.

-- SvenDowideit - 30 Jul 2008

Of course, If you want some accounting you will need to log (and slow down response time). But I guess you can disable and enable this feature at your will. Thanks, I am searching hard for such Add-Ons!

-- JohannKappacher - 30 Jul 2008

UserInfoPlugin by Michael Daum implements RecentVisitors. I guess it could be easily enhanced to implement RecentViews or RecentVisits. Now I know where to start!

-- JohannKappacher - 30 Jul 2008

I support features, that show the activity in the Wiki for all users. It is a very useful feature, that could be teased on the WebHome: "JohannKappacher is viewing TWikiStatsPlugin for 2 minutes ..."

-- MartinSeibert - 02 Aug 2008

Just kidding? But yes, this is a useful feature if it can help to improve site administration. How would you know a user aborts viewing a topic after 2min?

I want to find a solution that works for web-hosted Twiki sites, too. I guess I will do some self-study on plugin handling (taking UserInfoPlugin as a test case).

-- JohannKappacher - 02 Aug 2008

Do you think, there is no way of showing "My RecentViews" (like "My RecentChanges" in the personal sidebar)? Because this one is for users, not just an AdminTool.

-- JohannKappacher - 02 Aug 2008