Gutza wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Gutza wrote:
Once the queries are logged and ranked, a
relatively simple
mechanism could be built to pick one of the top 100 every couple of
hours and show it somewhere in every page
A little extra table with a string and a counter (to count multiple
ones), and maybe a timestamp, so we can automatically get rid of
queries that were searched only once for in, say, a month. Or a week.
You probably don't mean to display /all top 100 queries/ somewhere on
every page? ;-)
IMHO a link to "Special:Most searched topics" would suffice...
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Magnus
When I say "pick one" I obviously don't mean "display all". Is
there
any possibility that my original message could have been interpreted
otherwise? I think it's easy to interpret correctly what I said: pick
one, and show one; show *one* on *every* page. You're somehow twisting
it into pick *all*, show *all* -- which would obviously result in
showing them all on some isolated page... I was going towards a
proposal which would have made *one* failed query available for *all*
users in order for them to have a chance at fixing it somehow (either
by creating a redirect or by creating an article).
--Gutza
Just for the record, re-read your original post and realized I
completely misinterpreted it when I sent the reply above. Typical online
conversation misinterpretation (you know the drill, missing facial cues,
etc). In any case, I apologize if I came out as a paranoid schizoid
(which I probably did :-)).
You're right, I don't mean 100 queries/anywhere, I meant /one/ failed
query /everywhere/, and that one query would only be picked once every
two hours. I honestly don't think that would be any perceptible
performance hit.
--Gutza