On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Luca de Alfaro <luca(a)dealfaro.org> wrote:
I guess that Wiki(pedia|media) could very well gather
statistics on
(revision_id, clicked_link)
pairs without compromising the anonimity of the visitors. It would be very
useful to have indications on which hyperlinks are most useful. For
example, I am always curious whether the large editorial effort to curate
categories is worth it. And also, if one had data on:
(revision_id, "search terms used in next search"),
one could infer which links are actually missing.
Seems to me like that (especially the latter), would need to be done
extremely carefully to avoid compromising the anonymity of the visitors.
Although it's not quite as bad it seems reminiscent of the "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal"quot;, especially with
regard to "search terms used in next search".