Hi Felix,

There was recently a discussion about releasing raw queries, and the decision was made by WMF not to release raw queries for privacy reasons. Personally, I support that decision because the risks seem to far outweigh the benefits. The staff from Discovery may be able to provide you with more detail or alternatives, but I would say that the odds of releasing raw data from is low.

Sometimes WMF allows access to sensitive data if an NDA is signed. In this case, I feel that the risks are too high even for that to be allowed. That's a personal opinion only; the official answer will come from WMF.

Pine

On Aug 17, 2016 08:39, "Tilman Bayer" tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Felix Engelmann fengelmann@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

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Hi everybody,

I’m currently writing by bachelor thesis at University Koblenz, Germany.

The goal is to improve Wikipedia search by exploiting the text structure of Wikipedia articles. To conduct unbiased user studies I need real world queries so I can compare the novel algorithms agains the currently used ones. Are there any query logs existing which I can use for this purpose?

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