2008/11/26 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.

You don't need to. You just rig it so that to go from one article to
the other involves going via a redirect then measure the traffic on
that redirect. This was I understand done with respect to some links
on the main page at one point. Doesn't require dev involvement.


-- 
geni

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