It doesn't matter because the correct behavior will accumulate over
time. You don't try to "fix" linkage just because you have one single
observed behavior, you collect and correlate behavior over time and
use several, perhaps hundreds of observations.
Even more interesting than disambiguation pages are search pages. A
user tries to find something, lands on some slightly related page, but
must use another search to find the correct one. Observing only a few
users will give a very confusing use pattern, but observing thousand
of users over a year or more will create distinct patterns.
There are a lot of works on why and how if anyone bother digging it
up. Short story it is only a matter of number of observations.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:26 AM, John Erling Blad
<jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Send out a "mw-previous-referrer" on
the disambiguation page and echo
it back from the browser. It could be done through a cookie. On next
page it must be removed, either in the server or in the browser. The
server can simply rip off any incoming cookie, but not sure if this
will work in the squids or if it is simple to implement. The echoed
back mw-previous-referrer can then be logged somehow for the landing
page. Analysis of the log will then identify missing or failed
linkage.
The same could be done for search pages, as much of the same problem
exist there.
Instead of using cookies javascript can do this by remembering
specific pages by using the session storage. That could imply a
logging facility with some kind of api access.
This is an even worse solution. Not only does it have the same problem I
mentioned, but also what if the person just browses to another page by URL?
Then the server thinks the user got there from the disambiguation page.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
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