I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the appropriate thing.
I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of EventLogging...
When a user clicks on a link that is a disambiguation page and then clicks on a link on that page we log an event that contains
* page user was on before * page user is on now
If we were to collect this data it would allow us to statistically suggest what the correct disambiguation page might be.
To take a more concrete theoretical example: * If I am on the Wiki page for William Blake and click on London I am taken to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation) * I look through and see London (poem) and click on it * An event is fired that links London (poem) to William Blake.
Obviously this won't always be accurate but I'd expect generally this would work (obviously we'd need to filter out bots)
Then when editing William Blake say that disambiguation links are surfaced. If I go to fix one it might prompt me that 80% of visitors go from William Blake to London (poem).
Have we done anything like this in the past? (Collecting data from readers and informing editors)
I can imagine applying this sort of pattern could have various other uses...
-- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon
Interesting idea...
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the appropriate thing.
I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of EventLogging...
When a user clicks on a link that is a disambiguation page and then clicks on a link on that page we log an event that contains
- page user was on before
- page user is on now
If we were to collect this data it would allow us to statistically suggest what the correct disambiguation page might be.
To take a more concrete theoretical example:
- If I am on the Wiki page for William Blake and click on London I am
taken to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation)
- I look through and see London (poem) and click on it
- An event is fired that links London (poem) to William Blake.
Obviously this won't always be accurate but I'd expect generally this would work (obviously we'd need to filter out bots)
Then when editing William Blake say that disambiguation links are surfaced. If I go to fix one it might prompt me that 80% of visitors go from William Blake to London (poem).
Have we done anything like this in the past? (Collecting data from readers and informing editors)
I can imagine applying this sort of pattern could have various other uses...
-- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon
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Good idea, it could also help to know which are the links more used in a disambiguation page to sort them by importance.
Micru
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.comwrote:
Interesting idea...
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the appropriate thing.
I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of EventLogging...
When a user clicks on a link that is a disambiguation page and then clicks on a link on that page we log an event that contains
- page user was on before
- page user is on now
If we were to collect this data it would allow us to statistically suggest what the correct disambiguation page might be.
To take a more concrete theoretical example:
- If I am on the Wiki page for William Blake and click on London I am
taken to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation)
- I look through and see London (poem) and click on it
- An event is fired that links London (poem) to William Blake.
Obviously this won't always be accurate but I'd expect generally this would work (obviously we'd need to filter out bots)
Then when editing William Blake say that disambiguation links are surfaced. If I go to fix one it might prompt me that 80% of visitors go from William Blake to London (poem).
Have we done anything like this in the past? (Collecting data from readers and informing editors)
I can imagine applying this sort of pattern could have various other uses...
-- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon
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