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Emufarmers Sangly

11 Jan 2007 11 Jan '07

4:38 a.m.

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?

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Ittay Dror

24 Jan 24 Jan

8:19 p.m.

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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:

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Emufarmers Sangly

9:28 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Search Queries Tracking

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(a)qlusters.com> wrote:

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Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with

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

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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Ittay Dror

25 Jan 25 Jan

5:25 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Search Queries Tracking

Emufarmers Sangly wrote:

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attached is a modified SearchPage.php. it will write clicks to /tmp/clicks.log as 'term -> result'. it's from mediawiki 1.9

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On 1/24/07, Ittay Dror <ittayd(a)qlusters.com> wrote:

Is there any extension to track what pages people are searching for with

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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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aretai aretai

1:09 p.m.

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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(a)qlusters.com> wrote:

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Emufarmers Sangly wrote:

Thanks for replying! That sounds like it could work, but you'll need to

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(a)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

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> a >> wiki's internal search engine? I've realized that I actually know

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>> little about what the average user is searching for, and so I don't >> necessarily know what redirects would be appropriate, what ideal

article

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searching

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