Without having the origin page making the connection wouldnt be possible.
(you would just end up suggesting the most common result in stead of the
most accurate )

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Lee Worden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe it could be done with just the Referer field on the second request,
> without needing to log two different page requests and correlate them.
>
>  Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:14:42 -0400
>> From: David Cuenca<[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> 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 
>>>> > >tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/**wiki/London_(disambiguation)<http://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
>>>> > >
>>>>
>>>
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