> > "... Do we/can we collect
> > search queries on en:wp?..."
"...It would be ridiculously easy..."
http://vps.epstone.net/~andrew/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js
"...yes...no privacy implication...
How many searches do we get a
day? Is this useful data to those
working on MediaWiki/Wikipedia
search?..."
I think all users, especially editors and those who want to add new
pages could benefit from such a feature. I suggest insuring that the
word(s) searched for show up in red if there's still no page. In other
words, more than just what was searched for, but if it was found or
findable via that search (and maybe if it was selected or discarded).
Any other ideas on features and benefits? Sounds like an opportunity to
create SpecialSearchStats.php for all MediaWiki installs.
Perhaps even coordinating it with SpecialStatistics.php?
Someone did a nice job with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_statistics but
that's navel gazing - where "Wikipedia" appears in Google. What's more
important to me is what people are searching for on other search
engines, with an eye to help identify where Wikipedia is unresponsive to
people's interests. For Google, see the weekly list at
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html and the hourly feed at
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends ... versus whatever we think
should be on Wikipedia.
... I know we're busy with v1.12 testing, and that basic function comes
before such enhancements as above ... funny thing, though, when there's
loads of money behind something: standing at the gas/petrol pump credit
card terminal early this morning as they turned it on and it booted up
(everything's computerized) I saw it's BIOS was v20.2!