[Wikipedia-l] Logging no-Go queries?
Thomas R. Koll
tomk32 at tomk32.de
Tue Jan 13 18:33:41 UTC 2004
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:33:54PM +0200, 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".
You could ask the operators for the apache-logs and run a simple script
over them to compare them with the database dump.
Just an idea.
ciao, tom
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