David Gerard wrote:
On 27/09/2007, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
On 9/26/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Do we/can we collect search queries on en:wp? Say, 1 in 1000 searches, no details just the search text. That'll show what people are actually looking for.
It would be ridiculously easy to do. Proof of concept is at http://vps.epstone.net/~andrew/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.js
Well yes :-) I can see no privacy implication, but I might have missed something.
How many searches do we get a day?
Is this useful data to those working on MediaWiki/Wikipedia search?
(not to me, I must add - if I had concrete plans to apply it, I'd be pushing this hard)
- d.
It would be useful data to those writing the encyclopedia; common search terms that are red links are likely to be good places to set up redirects or disambiguation pages.
-Gurch