Thanks, Chris! Deb also shared this, and I've been meaning to read it and comment, so thanks for the reminder. It's very cool stuff, and much more sharable (and more useful) than looking at zero-result queries.
—Trey Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Chris Koerner <[email protected]> wrote: > Not directly a search feature in the sense of our normal queries, > indexes, and results pages, but I thought this research by Amir Elisha > Aharoni is worth mentioning on this list. > > Amir has logged the queries people search for via the Compact Language > Links search box. He then provides a list of "most wanted" articles. > > From Amir, "This is a report of the articles that people most often > try to find in a different language, and cannot find. This is done by > logging the searches in the Compact Language Links' language search > box that don't yield any results. For example, if somebody goes to the > English Wikipedia article en:Newspaper, searches for "telugu", and > this article doesn't exist in the Telugu Wikipedia, this is logged and > counted here." > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-May/090376.html > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Most_wanted_articles_across_languages > > > Yours, > Chris Koerner > Community Liaison > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >
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