It's true that MediaWiki supports search based
solely on the ?search query
parameter. Regardless of whether title=Special:Search is
specified.
This is mostly for legacy reasons as search predates
the concept of
special pages.
However, would it make sense to instead count these as
page views for
'Special:Search'?
One thing worth clarifying is that analytics team doesn't own the pageview
definition (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view), we
implement it to the best of our ability. Deciding what constitutes a
pageview for search falls on the search team as they are the ones that know
their functionality best (substitute "search team" by "some entity with
knowledge of mediawiki's search abilities") According to Timo's
comment it seems
that "?search" requests should be counted as true pageviews but let us know
otherwise via phab ticket or this list.
Thanks,
Nuria
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Oliver Keyes, 02/12/2015 18:52:
Context:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Page_view/Archive_1#Parameter…
Nemo
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