On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:26 AM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Send out a "mw-previous-referrer" on the disambiguation page and echo > it back from the browser. It could be done through a cookie. On next > page it must be removed, either in the server or in the browser. The > server can simply rip off any incoming cookie, but not sure if this > will work in the squids or if it is simple to implement. The echoed > back mw-previous-referrer can then be logged somehow for the landing > page. Analysis of the log will then identify missing or failed > linkage. > > The same could be done for search pages, as much of the same problem > exist there. > > Instead of using cookies javascript can do this by remembering > specific pages by using the session storage. That could imply a > logging facility with some kind of api access. > This is an even worse solution. Not only does it have the same problem I mentioned, but also what if the person just browses to another page by URL? Then the server thinks the user got there from the disambiguation page. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
