Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's been some discussions about changing the links in the sidebar. Is there a clever way to do it by using click statistics?
For example, can we get statistics about how many people click each link in the sidebar, and if possible - what kind of user click them - registered, anonymous, having more than 5 edits, etc.?
Of course, this may be useful for all projects.
The English Wikipedia once used a hack where it changed a few links on the Main Page to redirects and then measured page view statistics using stats.grok.se.[1]
An extension such as ClickTracking is probably a much better option if you can get local consensus and sysadmin support.
MZMcBride
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=223886569&oldid=223883642