Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with a wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know very little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal article titles would be, and other things of that nature. I haven't been able to find such an extension, but I would assume data on what people are searching for is already logged somewhere?
i'm not sure this is still relevant, but it sounds fairly easy to do. just hack SpecialSearch.php so the links it returns are to Special:Recordclick?search=<term>&result_title=<result title>. then, Special:Recordclick can record both and redirect to the title page. then you get a list of pairs of the searches and what people clicked.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with a wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know very little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal article titles would be, and other things of that nature. I haven't been able to find such an extension, but I would assume data on what people are searching for is already logged somewhere? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Thanks for replying! That sounds like it could work, but you'll need to be more specific in exactly what sort of code I need to add to each file, since I don't have any experience at actually writing code from scratch.
On 1/24/07, Ittay Dror ittayd@qlusters.com wrote:
i'm not sure this is still relevant, but it sounds fairly easy to do. just hack SpecialSearch.php so the links it returns are to Special:Recordclick?search=<term>&result_title=<result title>. then, Special:Recordclick can record both and redirect to the title page. then you get a list of pairs of the searches and what people clicked.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with
a
wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know very little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal article titles would be, and other things of that nature. I haven't been able
to
find such an extension, but I would assume data on what people are
searching
for is already logged somewhere? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Thanks for replying! That sounds like it could work, but you'll need to be more specific in exactly what sort of code I need to add to each file, since I don't have any experience at actually writing code from scratch.
attached is a modified SearchPage.php. it will write clicks to /tmp/clicks.log as 'term -> result'. it's from mediawiki 1.9
On 1/24/07, Ittay Dror ittayd@qlusters.com wrote:
i'm not sure this is still relevant, but it sounds fairly easy to do. just hack SpecialSearch.php so the links it returns are to Special:Recordclick?search=<term>&result_title=<result title>. then, Special:Recordclick can record both and redirect to the title page. then you get a list of pairs of the searches and what people clicked.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with
a
wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know very little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal article titles would be, and other things of that nature. I haven't been able
to
find such an extension, but I would assume data on what people are
searching
for is already logged somewhere? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Hi
I'm also interested. Will it work on MW 1.6.7?
Aretai
On 1/25/07, Ittay Dror ittayd@qlusters.com wrote:
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Thanks for replying! That sounds like it could work, but you'll need to
be
more specific in exactly what sort of code I need to add to each file,
since
I don't have any experience at actually writing code from scratch.
attached is a modified SearchPage.php. it will write clicks to /tmp/clicks.log as 'term -> result'. it's from mediawiki 1.9
On 1/24/07, Ittay Dror ittayd@qlusters.com wrote:
i'm not sure this is still relevant, but it sounds fairly easy to do.
just
hack SpecialSearch.php so the links it returns are to Special:Recordclick?search=<term>&result_title=<result title>. then, Special:Recordclick can record both and redirect to the title page.
then you
get a list of pairs of the searches and what people clicked.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for
with
a
wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know
very
little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal
article
titles would be, and other things of that nature. I haven't been able
to
find such an extension, but I would assume data on what people are
searching
for is already logged somewhere? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
--
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