[Foundation-l] Research access to logs

Tue Aug 16 19:14:58 UTC 2005

Sisay Fissaha Adafre wrote:

> http://www.science.uva.nl/~sfissaha/Proj_Outline.pdf

I'm not representing the Foundation or community, I'm just curious 
about what your research tries to accomplish.

It seems one of your goals (described under "Benefits for 
Authors") is to change how Wikipedia works.  Have you tried this 
in a smaller scale?  Do you have a link to a working prototype?

Under "Approach" you mention "analysis of existing query logs", 
but what is that?  Logs of things written into the search field? 
Users are of course writing search queries in a way that gives 
some useful result, mostly one word searches, and not full 
sentence questions in natural language.  This is very different 
from what the user really "needs", something you could only find 
out by interviewing real users.

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