Magnus Manske wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Apoc 2400 <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Would it be possible to generate a log or statistics of searches on
>> Wikipedia using the "Go" button that did not immediately reach an article?
>> Properly anonymized of course. I think it would be useful for finding
>> missing articles and redirects to create. There would be a lot of crap of
>> course, but probably also very useful information on what people have
>> trouble finding.
>>     
>
> We used to have that. I don't remember why it was turned off -
> probably too many results.
>   

We used to do it, and the plan was to make it public, however, there are 
privacy issues apparently and no-one knows if we can or cannot publish 
them, and in what format etc.. So since it was filling up the disk and 
was not used, I have disabled it until a solution and storage space is 
found.

Cheers, r.



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