Dokuwiki is a popular wiki software, similar to Mediawiki. “It is a standards-compliant, simple-to-use wiki which allows users to create rich documentation repositories.”

Heikki, a Finish user of Piwik, has developed a plugin for easy integration of Piwik in Dokuwiki. This plugin allows you to track visitors statistics of your DokuWiki installation using Piwik. Optionally admin/users can be excluded from the statistics.

Thanks Heikki for your work!

• Official page of the PIwik Dokuwiki Plugin

Dotclear2 is a publishing platform, similar to Wordpress, very popular in France.

Olivier Meunier, the main developer of the project, seemed impressed [fr] by Piwik and decided to write a plugin to make it easy to integrate Piwik in Dotclear.

We are already seeing many Dotclear users starting to use Piwik.

The extension makes you choose wheter you want to use the HTML title of the page as the Action names in Piwik. You can also easily exclude your own visits from being recorded.

Thanks Olivier for your work!

• Official page for Piwik Dotclear2 integration download (click on Piwik)

Typo3 is a popular CMS, “offering full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules”. It is quite a heavy weight CMS with a huge user and developer base.

Frank, a German user, developed a Piwik module to allow easy integration of Piwik in your typo3 pages. The extension is configured with TypoScript and will generate the Piwik code automatically.

You can find the documentation of the plugin on the typo3 community website page and download the plugin from the official extension repository.

Frank is planning to add an authentication sharing mechanism, so that users already logged in typo3 wouldn’t have to login again in Piwik.

Thanks Frank for your work on the plugin! Good luck for the next steps.

• Typo3 Piwik extension page on the typo3 extensions repository
• Typo3 Piwik Plugin official documentation

The Piwik team will be in London (UK) next Saturday July 5th and we’d like to use the opportunity to meet with some of our users and to run a focus group on one of our current projects.

We’re looking for feedback for a group of medium to high load web publishers about a project we’re currently working on.

What: Piwik users meetup and focus group
When: Saturday 5th July, 6:00 pm (TBC)
Where: London central

Please email us if you are able to participate and tell us a little about yourself, your business and how you are using Piwik. We’ll pick publishers on a first come, first serve basis so act quickly!

Drinks
After the session we’ll be heading for drinks and would be pleased to meet up with Piwik community members. This will be a nice chance to meet some members of the Piwik Team as well as other like minded people with an interest in Piwik Web Analytics.

Please email us if you’d like to attend and we’ll send you an email confirming details.

kind regards,
The Piwik Team

PS. Please feel free to send this invitation on if you know other web publishers in or around London who might be interested in attending.

Wordpress is the most popular blogging software, and the one we use on piwik.org

Jules, a dutch Piwik user, has built a plugin to easily integrate Piwik in your Wordpress templates.

The Piwik Wordpress integration plugin features are:

• piwk.php and piwik.js location
• site ID setting
• options to control download tracking
• option to exclude the admin user (probably you)

If you want to participate and make the plugin better, we also have a trac ticket with some ideas.

We also hope that Jules can host his plugin on the official Wordpress plugins directory. That would give it more visibility.

Thanks for your work!

See Piwik Wordpress plugin page on Jules’ blog

What gives us, open source people, the energy to work? your support and love.

This is one of those times, normal people don’t/shouldn’t get so excited about web analytics tools. However, i’m not normal, so http://piwik.org/ has made me sit up and say ‘oooh’.

[from webponce]

We are keeping track of the blog posts and articles about Piwik in a never ending list (nearly 200 articles now!). If you know a post that is not yet in the list (or if you’ve just written a new shiny one!) let us know. You can find some media resources on the Media page.

We hope that in the next few months, as well as making users happy, Piwik will make developers happy. The movement has already started with a few plugins being in development and a few already done (more info soon!).

Why are the developers so important? Every user expects something different from web analytics tools. Piwik has the power to give a unique experience by customization (via plugins). We believe that Piwik has a huge potential and we need the help from developers to build up this potential!

If you want to know more, visit the Developer Zone and read about the APIs or the plugin development. Feedback or contributions? Let us know

Mediawiki is the wiki software used to power Wikipedia. It is also used by thousands of websites and companies.

Isaac, a spanish Piwik user, has built a plugin to easily integrate Piwik and provide analytics for your Mediawiki installation.

His plugin is hosted on the official Mediawiki website. It provides some extra features: it excludes the views of the users with ‘bot’ privileges (bots) and the ‘protect’ privileges (sysops). You can also access a Piwik “Special page” to access some reports:

If you have any feedback, suggestion, please contact Isaac, he will be happy to help.

See Piwik Mediawiki Integration plugin

Ralph, german user of Piwik, has written a nice and detailed installation tutorial for Piwik. Piwik installation process is easy and straightforward for most people. However when you have not installed a php software software, an illustrated tutorial is very useful! Thanks Ralph.

Also check out Ralph 5min video review in German of the Piwik features:

If you’ve never heard someone speaking German, then give his video a try, I think it’s fun!
He is going through all Piwik features: user interface, all the metrics Piwik offers (pages statistics, top keywords, visit by time, search engines, country, your brower’s plugins, etc.). He is also quickly reviewing Piwik admin: adding a new site, getting the javascript code to add before the /body, the API methods.

Thanks Ralph.
Let’s see if more international users will come up with other nice resources!

We have great news for the Piwik community: Spoti.tv, an innovative video marketing company, is looking to hire a full time developer to help make Piwik scalable.

These last few months we have seen huge interest in Piwik and its innovative features (API, plugins architecture, dashboard), and the next step is to make Piwik function on medium to large traffic websites.

Do you want to work on an interesting project involving problem solving of a highly technical manner?

Do you want your work to be used by thousands of people?

Extract: “Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. We are passionate about providing a great service to our users and are looking to hire a PHP5 expert to support our growth!”

For further details, please read the full job description on spoti.tv

Piwik is now ready to be translated. We have received dozens of emails from users from all over the world (french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, indonesian, thai, croatia, czech republic, ukranian, turkish, …). Thanks to everybody for the warm welcome.

To make this translation a reality, we are looking for a Translation Manager volunteer!

Description: Your role in the Piwik community would be to help Piwik get new translations.You would talk to the translators, make sure their translations are up to date whenever possible, help new translators to get started (which is easy anyway). When several people speaking the same language want to help us with translations, you would ask them to review the existing translation.

Time necessary: managing the internationalization of Piwik shouldn’t take more than a few hours per month.

Outcome: working on a fast growing open source project, with a vibrant community, and see new translations added to Piwik  thanks to your help!

Please leave a comment if you are interested, or contact us at hello at piwik.org

Thanks for your support!

Piwik is an international open source project, we are happy to announce that you will soon use Piwik in your native language!

Thanks to the work of Maciej Zawadziński, Piwik is now ready to be translated.

Do you use Piwik and your mother tongue is not english?

You can help us translate Piwik in your own language. Send us an email at hello@piwik.org and tell us which language you would like to translate Piwik in.

Do you want to be part of the Piwik team as “Translation coordinator”?

We are looking for someone who would coordinate the translation efforts. You would have to talk to the translators, make sure their translations are up to date whenever possible, help new translators. When several people speaking the same language want to help us with translations, you would ask them to review the existing translation.

It’s a great way to participate in Piwik without tech-development knowledge! :) Contact us if interested.

How does it technically work?

Translations strings are located in files in the /lang/ directory and in every plugin.

• Copy the english files, rename them using your country 2 letters locale code ; eg. “fr.php”
• Translate the strings
• Edit your configuration file config/global.inc.php and change the “current” value in the [Language] section using your 2 letters language iso code.
• Check all your translations, and make sure they make sense in context
• Send us a patch containing the translation files (see How to create a patch?)

What features is coming in the future?

• support for right to left languages
• support for graph labels translations

We are working to make Piwik more scalable and reliable under medium to high load. Our first logical step is to test Piwik on a small to medium traffic website.

Do you have a website that has more than 10,000 visits per day?

Are you willing to help us beta test Piwik under medium load?

This test will be for a limited time (a few days) and should not slow down your website whatsoever. You will have to simply add in your pages the Javascript tracker pointing to our piwik server.

Contact us at hello@piwik.org with your website details: URL, no of visits/ pages per month. Thank you for your help!

We’ve been contacted by several companies looking for Piwik plugins developers. We would like to direct them to great developers, and give you a great job!

We are looking for freelance PHP5 programmers, you’ll be a member of the Piwik Professional Services Team. If you are looking for a fun work on a fast growing open source project, apply now! If you already are a Piwik user this is big plus. Good luck!

PS: there is not need for relocation.

These last days, before and even more after the first public beta release of piwik, the website has been visited by thousands of people from all over the world!

If we use only the last 2 days data (monday 7th and tuesday 8th), piwik.org has received:

- 120+ visits from a one line polish blog post (still bringing traffic today)

- 180+ visits from a russian blog post

- 800+ visits from several chinese websites and software directories!!! (but please, stand for a free tibet!

The feedburner count is increasing every day to now display that you are 220 followers, Thank you all!

We have already listed more than 130 blog post articles in more than 15 languages about Piwik. Thank you to all the amazing bloggers.

View here a pie chart of yesterday visitors coutries. You can get tag clouds and flash charts very easily in Piwik, embed them in your blog, and even in Igoogle and netvibes!

Piwik is more and more downloaded, and to prove you so we have added a download counter. It shows the number of downloads since 2008, 4576 at the time of writing. Thanks WP for the inspiration.

We will soon write a post explaining the new features in Piwik: tracking download and outlinks.

In the meantime, give Piwik a try & download, if your website has a few hundreds visits, it will work like a charm. So far, we love it.

›› Download First Piwik Public Beta!