On 19 Sep 2013 18:23, "Tim Starling" <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On 20/09/13 03:04, Jon Robson wrote: > > Thanks Tim for running those data. That seems to suggest the URL > > structure works for the most case. > > I think the request rate for actual articles in the root is very, very > low.
I agree.. Sorry I guess my message wasn't so clear. I meant "existing" URL structure :) And if you look at the paste I gave earlier: > > http://paste.tstarling.com/p/uhtFqg.html > > there's reason to think that the amount of traffic that comes from > naive readers typing URLs and expecting an article is much smaller > than even 149k per week. A naive user would be more likely to type a > URL starting with a lower-case letter, and if you take those entries, > and filter out the obvious client bugs and typos, that leaves only 39 > log entries. If we filter out some more log entries that are unlikely > search terms for Wikipedia articles ("enregistrement-audio-musique", > "is", "unlimited_data_plan", etc.), that leaves maybe 30. > http://paste.tstarling.com/p/KWuHif.html > > Of these, only 12 actually correspond to Wikipedia articles or redirects: > > abolition > addicting_games > apple_inc > carnaval > dreamshade > facade > girls > insidious > karthik > online_coupons > snam > walkabout > > So the number of naive readers actually helped by our 404 Refresh to > /wiki/ is probably closer to 12k per week than 149k per week. > > Personally, I think the refresh is annoying, since it makes it much > more difficult to correct typos in manually-typed URLs. If you > actually meant to type some non-article URL like a CSS resource, and > make a typo which causes it to hit the refresh, the URL you typed is > erased from your browser's address bar and history, making correction > of the typo much more difficult. Maybe we should just include a link > to the search page, rather than redirect or refresh. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
