Magnus Manske wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2400@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to generate a log or statistics of searches on Wikipedia using the "Go" button that did not immediately reach an article? Properly anonymized of course. I think it would be useful for finding missing articles and redirects to create. There would be a lot of crap of course, but probably also very useful information on what people have trouble finding.
We used to have that. I don't remember why it was turned off - probably too many results.
We used to do it, and the plan was to make it public, however, there are privacy issues apparently and no-one knows if we can or cannot publish them, and in what format etc.. So since it was filling up the disk and was not used, I have disabled it until a solution and storage space is found.
Cheers, r.