Maybe it could be done with just the Referer field on
the second request,
without needing to log two different page requests and correlate them.
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:14:42 -0400
From: David Cuenca<dacuetu(a)gmail.com>
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(a)gmail.com>**
wrote:
>Interesting idea...
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson<jdlrobson(a)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
tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/**wiki/London_(disambiguation)<http://en.wiki…
>>
>> > >* 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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