Possibility to add a UserId variable to piwik script code in Matomo plugin for OJS 3.3.x.x

[Sasuke_Chang]

@marc

Why not use customHeaders plugin instead?

Creating an specific plugin for matomo, piwik, analytics… means developers need to dedicate time to create and maintain those plugins (because of the tracking services, but also because of OJS evolution).

At same time, any plugin will perfectly fit with everybody’s need (you need userId, others Tags, others anonymization…).

CustomHeader let you add the JS tracker to every header’s page so looks like a perfect solution that could make everybody happy.

So, my suggestion instead of improve piwik plugin would be replace all tracking plugins by documentation explaining how to configure your favorite tracker (and probably also a comparative explaining the benefits and the downsides or each one of them.

Hello Marc, thank you very much for answering, the question is that if I use that customHeaders plugin for another statistical analysis tool that the Ministry of Higher Education of my country has, but the question is that in the end they always have to update matomo with the new OJS versions the custom script you make is not going to go with those changes unless you do it manually and that’s 11 journals and a single admin (me).

I think the suggestion to add this trace variable would be very useful and could even be incorporated into your post on detecting SPAM ( https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/collaborative-list-of-spam-user-patterns /65190/9 ) which has been very useful to me, I would be willing to help as a contributor to add this feature to the matomo plugin.

Thank you very much again for the answer.

Kind regards