Robert Stojnic wrote:
> Magnus Manske wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Apoc 2400 <apoc2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to generate a log or statistics of searches on
>>> Wikipedia using the "Go" button that did not immediately reach an article?

Also, searches made using either button that did not have any results. 
There are smaller Wikipedias out there, you know :)

>>> Properly anonymized of course. I think it would be useful for finding
>>> missing articles and redirects to create. There would be a lot of crap of
>>> course, but probably also very useful information on what people have
>>> trouble finding.
>>>     
>> We used to have that. I don't remember why it was turned off -
>> probably too many results.
> 
> We used to do it, and the plan was to make it public, however, there are 
> privacy issues apparently and no-one knows if we can or cannot publish 

What would be privacy issues if only the statistics are displayed?

> them, and in what format etc.. So since it was filling up the disk and 

I suggest HTML :)

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