2008/11/27 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com>om>:
If we could get something that reads the searches and
tabulates the most frequently not found articles, we could better target our account
creation efforts.
Hence my suggestion on wikitech-l :-)
Logging referers as well as the name of the page hit wouldn't load the
current logging significantly. Only logging referers that are in
article space or Special:Search (with the search) would guard against
most possible privacy problems. (Greg Maxwell noted that people may
enter private identifying data into Special:Search which would then be
logged. Possibly might warrant a warning note on Special:Search.)
What it needs now is someone writing code to log and to analyse and
present the logs, and the code being approved ;-)
- d.