Maybe someone managed to grab those logs before they took them offline.
If they did, I hope they won't share. They were taken offline due to
privacy issues.
From the blog post: "We’ve temporarily taken down
this data to make
additional improvements to the anonymization protocol related to
the search
queries."
-Aaron
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Valerio Schiavoni <
valerio.schiavoni(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> There has been at least one attempt to release such data:
>
>
>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/19/what-are-readers-looking-for-wikipedia…
Maybe someone managed to grab those logs before they took them offline.
>
> Similar but older logs are available here:
>
http://www.wikibench.eu/
>
> best,
> valerio
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Oliver,
>>
>> Do we even record search logs? It might be a good idea if we didn't.
>>
>> Pine
>> On Apr 3, 2015 6:16 AM, "Simon Givoli" <givolis(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Oliver,
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
>>> My dissertation will involve consented participants. Their search logs
>>> will be recorded while searching Wikipedia. The search logs will then be
>>> analyzed in order to find recurrent search patterns across participants.
>>> Before beginning the experiment, I want to check that I can indeed find
>>> patterns in search logs, using several different algorithms. The idea is to
>>> check these algorithms on Wikipedia search logs already available. Hence my
>>> request.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:37:33 +0300
>>> From: Simon Givoli <givolis(a)gmail.com>
>>> To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia search logs needed
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>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a dump or db of Wikipedia users search logs. I would
like
>>> it to be with recent data, but it doesn't have to be extensive, even a
>>> small sample size would be sufficient. I aim to use this db to test a new
>>> research tool I'm developing for my dissertation.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to a relevant source?
>>>
>>> Thanks'
>>> Simon
>>>