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