The discussion around the difficulty of providing such a list (and it's relative usefulness) is well summarized in Trey's notes from his research into the matter.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Top_Unsuccessful_Search_Queries On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Eran Rosenthal <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately WMF policy to release search queries to the public is too > strict. > (Although there are privacy concerns, I'm sure anyone here could easily > think of some simple whitelist rules. For more details please refer to > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115085 or > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8373 or similar bugs in phabricator) > > As a workaround you can use other data as approximation to what users look > for (though you don't get the query itself, only the result - under > assumption the users find what they look for): > https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ - page view data > or as dump: > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/analytics/ > > Other options (they have their own caveats but you can try): > * Search for "Special:Search/QUERY" in the pagecounts-all-sites linked > above (zcat DUMP | grep "Search/") - this can provide you results such as > "commons.m.m Special:Search/Jnnjjjnnnnjnjjnbnjbnjnjj 1 5418" so you know > 1 user seared for "Jnnjjjnnnnjnjjnbnjbnjnjj" in mobile, at 2016-05-15 > 13:00-14:00 > * Use google trends > > > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> >> 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? >> >> We do have query logs, but they are not publicly accessible for privacy >> reasons. You may want to check this out though: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Wikidata_Queries >> >> -- >> Stas Malyshev >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > > -- Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison - Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
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