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...
>
>
>
>
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> Jon Robson
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