Good idea, it could also help to know which are the links more used in a
disambiguation page to sort them by importance.

Micru

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Vervelle <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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