>
> Maybe someone managed to grab those logs before they took them offline.


If they did, I hope they won't share.  They were taken offline due to
privacy issues.

>From the blog post: "We’ve temporarily taken down this data to make
additional improvements to the anonymization protocol related to the search
queries."

-Aaron

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Valerio Schiavoni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> There has been at least one attempt to release such data:
>
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/19/what-are-readers-looking-for-wikipedia-search-data-now-available/
>
> Maybe someone managed to grab those logs before they took them offline.
>
> Similar but older logs are available here:
> http://www.wikibench.eu/
>
> best,
> valerio
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Oliver,
>>
>> Do we even record search logs? It might be a good idea if we didn't.
>>
>> Pine
>> On Apr 3, 2015 6:16 AM, "Simon Givoli" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Oliver,
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
>>> My dissertation will involve consented participants. Their search logs
>>> will be recorded while searching Wikipedia. The search logs will then be
>>> analyzed in order to find recurrent search patterns across participants.
>>> Before beginning the experiment, I want to check that I can indeed find
>>> patterns in search logs, using several different algorithms. The idea is to
>>> check these algorithms on Wikipedia search logs already available. Hence my
>>> request.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:37:33 +0300
>>> From: Simon Givoli <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia search logs needed
>>> Message-ID:
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>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a dump or db of Wikipedia users search logs. I would like
>>> it to be with recent data, but it doesn't have to be extensive, even a
>>> small sample size would be sufficient. I aim to use this db to test a new
>>> research tool I'm developing for my dissertation.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to a relevant source?
>>>
>>> Thanks'
>>> Simon
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>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 02:47:54 -0400
>>> From: Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>
>>> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
>>>         <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia search logs needed
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>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> We really don't release search logs at the moment, very deliberately -
>>> they're incredibly difficult to sanitise well. Could you be more
>>> precise about what you're looking to investigate/study and what you'd
>>> need than "a new research tool"?
>>>
>>> On 3 April 2015 at 02:37, Simon Givoli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I'm looking for a dump or db of Wikipedia users search logs. I would
>>> like it
>>> > to be with recent data, but it doesn't have to be extensive, even a
>>> small
>>> > sample size would be sufficient. I aim to use this db to test a new
>>> research
>>> > tool I'm developing for my dissertation.
>>> >
>>> > Can anyone point me to a relevant source?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks'
>>> > Simon
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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