[Wikipedia-l] Logging no-Go queries?
Magnus Manske
magnus.manske at web.de
Tue Jan 13 17:49:55 UTC 2004
Gutza wrote:
> How about logging the failed "Go" queries on the server and ranking
> them? Searching the Wikipedia can be pretty frustrating at times,
> especially when you don't know exactly what you're looking for. You know
> what I mean, you *know* what you're looking for, you just don't know
> what exactly it is called, especially when that's an article which can
> have a lot of names.
>
> Once the queries are logged and ranked, a relatively simple mechanism
> could be built to pick one of the top 100 every couple of hours and show
> it somewhere in every page, obviously as long as the article hasn't been
> already created. That way we increase the chances towards meaningful
> pathfinding (#REDIRECTs) and *really* "wanted articles".
>
> I'm aware this would incur a tad more load on the server, but since
> people typically tend to follow links rather than search for stuff, I
> don't think this would be a serious performance hit. What do you think?
A little extra table with a string and a counter (to count multiple
ones), and maybe a timestamp, so we can automatically get rid of queries
that were searched only once for in, say, a month. Or a week.
You probably don't mean to display /all top 100 queries/ somewhere on
every page? ;-)
IMHO a link to "Special:Most searched topics" would suffice...
As much as I like adding new toys (Phase II was practically drowning in
'em ;-) I'd suggest to put that aside until we have a monster server
running the database again. Otherwise, I like it (had something similar,
but more simple implemented once).
Magnus
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