Hi Felix,
There was recently a discussion about releasing raw queries, and the decision was made by WMF not to release raw queries for privacy reasons. Personally, I support that decision because the risks seem to far outweigh the benefits. The staff from Discovery may be able to provide you with more detail or alternatives, but I would say that the odds of releasing raw data from is low.
Sometimes WMF allows access to sensitive data if an NDA is signed. In this case, I feel that the risks are too high even for that to be allowed. That's a personal opinion only; the official answer will come from WMF.
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Felix Engelmann
<fengelmann@uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I’m currently writing by bachelor thesis at University Koblenz, Germany. The goal is to improve Wikipedia search by exploiting the text structure of Wikipedia articles. To conduct unbiased user studies I need real world queries so I can compare the novel algorithms agains the currently used ones. Are there any query logs existing which I can use for this purpose?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Felix Engelmann
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