Interesting idea...
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand there is an issue that needs solving where various pages > link to disambiguation pages. These need fixing to point at the > appropriate thing. > > I had a thought on how this might be done using a variant of > EventLogging... > > When a user clicks on a link that is a disambiguation page and then > clicks on a link on that page we log an event that contains > > * page user was on before > * page user is on now > > If we were to collect this data it would allow us to statistically > suggest what the correct disambiguation page might be. > > To take a more concrete theoretical example: > * If I am on the Wiki page for William Blake and click on London I am > taken to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation) > * I look through and see London (poem) and click on it > * An event is fired that links London (poem) to William Blake. > > Obviously this won't always be accurate but I'd expect generally this > would work (obviously we'd need to filter out bots) > > Then when editing William Blake say that disambiguation links are > surfaced. If I go to fix one it might prompt me that 80% of visitors > go from William Blake to London (poem). > > > Have we done anything like this in the past? (Collecting data from > readers and informing editors) > > I can imagine applying this sort of pattern could have various other > uses... > > > > > -- > Jon Robson > http://jonrobson.me.uk > @rakugojon > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
