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'?
-- Timo
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Via Brian Davis we find out the responsible patch is
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/commit/05e5da92553dbd...
(I agree wholeheartedly with previous Oliver's assertion that MediaWiki is trying to kill me)
I'll leave it up to y'all whether you remove it or not.
On 2 December 2015 at 12:40, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Why the heck is search in
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/blob/master/refinery-...
? (I say that knowing it is probably my fault)
On 2 December 2015 at 12:38, Joseph Allemandou jallemandou@wikimedia.org wrote:
Food for thoughts:
SELECT uri_host, uri_path, uri_query, COUNT(1) as c FROM wmf.webrequest WHERE webrequest_source IN ('text', 'mobile') AND <YEAR/MONTH/DAY/HOUR restricted> AND is_pageview AND pageview_info['page_title'] = '-' GROUP BY uri_host, uri_path, uri_query ORDER BY c DESC LIMIT 100;
en.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 1986 fr.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Rechercher 476 ar.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?search=&fulltext=%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB
461 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Calvary%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Brendan%20Gleeson%20%2B%202014&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
356 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=The%20Woman%20in%20Black%202%3A%20Angel%20of%20Death%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Jeremy%20Irvine%20%2B%202014&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
317 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??? 307 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???? 258 pt.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Pesquisar 253 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=We%20Are%20the%20Best%21%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Vanja%20Engstr%C3%B6m%20%2B%202013&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
207 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Manhattan%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20John%20Benjamin%20Hickey%20%2B%202015&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
200 es.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Buscar 162 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Angus,%20Thongs%20and%20Perfect%20Snogging%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Aaron%20Taylor-Johnson%20%2B%202008&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
145 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php 140 de.m.wikipedia.org /wiki ?search=Mordkommission%20BERLIN%201 139 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????? 134 en.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search= 120 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?? 117 ru.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8 112 de.wikipedia.org /w/index.php 100 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??????? 93 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???? 93 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???????? 83 m.wikimediafoundation.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 82 fa.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88 82 zh.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??? 80 ar.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?search&fulltext=%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB 77
zh.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???? 76 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????? 76 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????? 72 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????_?????? 69 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Ginnifer%20Goodwin%20%2B%202015&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
69 commons.m.wikimedia.org /wiki/ ?uselang=it 69 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=The%20Birdcage%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Robin%20Williams%20%2B%201996&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
68 commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/ ?uselang=it 66 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????_????? 63 de.m.wikipedia.org /wiki ?search=Helmar%20B%C3%BCchel 58 en.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search&fulltext=Search 56 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????_??????? 54 en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki ?search=%3Cnomatch%2F%3E 53 en.wikipedia.org / ?search=+ 53 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=We%20Are%20What%20We%20Are%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Vonia%20Arslanian%20%2B%202013&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
51 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?diff=693310399&oldid=662731788 50 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=We're%20the%20Millers%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Jason%20Sudeikis%20%2B%202013&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
48 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????_???? 48 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?diff=693310404&oldid=693207084 47 commons.m.wikimedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 44 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????_?????? 44 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????_??????? 43 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?do=/user/login/ 43 zh.wikipedia.org /zh-tw/ 43 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????_????? 42 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?diff=693313743&oldid=693310399 42 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????? 41 en.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=Mukamwezi.Com&fulltext=Search
41
en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Marina%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Matteo%20Simoni%20%2B%202013&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
41 de.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Volltext 40 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????_???? 40 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?do=/blog/ 37 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ????????? 37 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Zurich%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Wende%20Snijders%20%2B%202015&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
37 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??????? 36 ar.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B3&fulltext=%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB 35 tr.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Ara 35 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Extraterrestre%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Juli%C3%A1n%20Villagr%C3%A1n%20%2B%202011&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
34 uk.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?curid=2070033 33 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???_????? 33 es.wikipedia.org /w/index.php 33 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???_???? 32 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=The%20Book%20Thief%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Sophie%20N%C3%A9lisse%20%2B%202013&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
32 en.wikipedia.org / ?search=Fn,..;;;: 31 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?do=/user/profile/ 31 de.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=Rtl+Deutschland 31 id.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Cari 30 de.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=Mordkommission+Berlin+1 30 de.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search= 30 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?do=/user/privacy/ 30 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Exodus%3A%20Gods%20and%20Kings%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Christian%20Bale%20%2B%202014&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
29 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??_?????? 28 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??? 28 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?????_???????? 27 en.wikipedia.org / ?curid=3392129 26 es.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search= 26 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Event%20Horizon%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Laurence%20Fishburne%20%2B%201997&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
26 en.m.wiktionary.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 25 meta.m.wikimedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 25 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ??????_???????? 24 ar.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ???????? 24 zh.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?%E6%9C%88? 24 sw.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Tafuta 24 de.m.wikipedia.org /wiki ?search=Mordkommission%20Berlin%201 24 en.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=xnxx+xnxx+xnxx 24 zh.wikipedia.org /wiki/ ?? 24 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Hart's%20War%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Bruce%20Willis%20%2B%202002&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
24 m.mediawiki.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Search 23 ja.wikipedia.org /wiki/ 23 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Selma%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20David%20Oyelowo%20%2B%202014&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
23 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=The%20Bridge%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Sofia%20Helin%20%2B%202011&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
23 en.wikipedia.org /w/index.php
?redirs=0&search=Rob%20the%20Mob%20%2B%20Film%20%2B%20Michael%20Pitt%20%2B%202014&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
23 fr.wikipedia.org / ?search=+ 23 it.m.wikipedia.org /w/index.php ?search=&fulltext=Ricerca 22
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org
wrote:
I mean, now I want to know how we can have a condition where there's no page title but it registers as a pageview.
On 2 December 2015 at 12:14, Joseph Allemandou jallemandou@wikimedia.org wrote:
Double checked:
https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-refinery-source/blob/master/refinery-...
This value is the default when no page title is found. I agree it's not very explicit. Any suggestion on changing it, or should we just make sure it is documented ?
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Can someone dig into it? We should really be excluding that (unless
it
is the page on the dash ;p)
On 2 December 2015 at 12:00, Dan Andreescu <
dandreescu@wikimedia.org>
wrote: > I always wonder about that. There's also an actual page that
could
> theoretically be hit: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=-&redirect=no > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Gabriel Wicke <
gwicke@wikimedia.org>
> wrote: >> >> Historically, I vaguely remember that we have used that title for >> user >> script / style loading with action=raw. I think that's gone from
the
>> skin code, but it's possible that user scripts still reference
this
>> title. >> >> Gabriel >> >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Oliver Keyes <
okeyes@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote: >> > One of the most prominent top articles has no page; it's "-".
What
>> > is >> > this? >> > >> > -- >> > Oliver Keyes >> > Count Logula >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Analytics mailing list >> > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> >> >> -- >> Gabriel Wicke >> Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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