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The current system: * A script hosted & maintained by a member of the WMF sends impression data as an email every 15 minutes. For this to work, we need to check "Use legacy impression counting" in CentralNotice. * Our FetchImpression script receives and processes the mails and writes the data into a database table. Problems in this process: * Transport method (IMAP) needs to be a PHP module * To map the banner names (page names on meta) in the impression mails to tracking keywords, the code in `Banner.php` requests the banner code from metawiki and parses it, looking for keyword parameters. If a banner name is mapped to keywords once, it's never mapped again, even when the keyword changes. However, the request to metawiki is done on every run of the script. Goal: Find a better way to get the analysis value of "donation per impression/donation quota".

Our current system for counting impressions of banners in CentralNotice is marked as "Legacy" since 2015. It might be deprecated without notice in the near future & and depends on a specific member of WMF for (unofficial) maintenance. We need to find a better way to get the impression data into our backend system while still adhering to the data protection policies of the WMF.

The current system: * A script hosted & maintained by a member of the WMF sends impression data as an email every 15 minutes. For this to work, we need to check "Use legacy impression counting" in CentralNotice. * Our FetchImpression script receives and processes the mails and writes the data into a database table. Problems in this process: * Transport method (IMAP) needs to be a PHP module * To map the banner names (page names on meta) in the impression mails to tracking keywords, the code in `Banner.php` requests the banner code from metawiki and parses it, looking for keyword parameters. If a banner name is mapped to keywords once, it's never mapped again, even when the keyword changesOur current system for counting impressions of banners in CentralNotice is marked as "Legacy" since 2015. However,It might be deprecated without notice in the near future & and depends on a specific member of WMF for (unofficial) maintenance. the request to metawiki is done on every run of the script. Goal: Find a better way to get the analysis value of "donation per impression/donation quota"We need to find a better way to get the impression data into our backend system while still adhering to the data protection policies of the WMF.