[WikiEN-l] Question about "External links"

[Akash Mehta]

Thats the only problem. We can't AWB every single link in the
database, then AWB it back just for the purpose of a study, which is
why we would have to somehow do it at software parser level for a day
or so. And we could easily host the file on toolserver and handle
redirects / logging from there. I have spare low traffic mysql db
server we could use. Then again, it would be simpler to build the
functionality into the Wikipedia toolbar, and thats a violation of
privacy, so it would have to be optional, and there'd be a clearly
rigged demographic left of those who allowed the logging to take
place...

On 9/9/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure it wouldn't be very expensive. All that needs to be done is
> > that the external (non-interwiki) link code passes URLs through a
> > script on a server that counts the number of clicks to that particular
> > link and then passes the user on to the appropriate site, which would
> > probably be specified through GET. I'll code it if I have time today,
> > its very simple in php, and using a database means that statistics can
> > be generated VERY easily.
>
> Turning every external link follow into a database write on Wikipedia
> is simply not going to be acceptable.
>
> We don't currently log HTTP GETs for a reason...
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