[Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

Thu Nov 27 05:15:02 UTC 2008

If we could get something that reads the searches and tabulates the most frequently not found articles, we could better target our account creation efforts. 

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From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:08:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008/11/26 David Yellope <sirfozzie at gmail.com>:

> Again, this is not the place for it. I see you've brought it up with Jimbo
> and elsewhere, so please stop canvassing a EN-WP dispute in places it
> doesn't belong.

I've been suggesting on wikien-l something like trying to work out,
with actual numbers, what article readers would reasonably be
expecting where. This led to suggesting an idea on wikitech-l on how
to gather internal referer logs (where people go from one article to
another, or what searches lead to what articles) in a way that won't
breach privacy. Such information would be of great general use in
seeing what readers actually want and do, rather than attempting to
guess. So it's far from a fruitless discussion.

- d.

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