Last modified: 2014-04-26 06:15:23 UTC
To improve the content of a wiki it would be usefull to provide search statistics. i.e. statistics on what was searched for. e.g. "most searched items": searched item # searches wiki 15 mediawiki 13 wikipedia 10
Moving this request to CirrusSearch, where we are focusing our Search related development currently.
This feature request is really cool! Unfortunately, it's not going to happen. I am very, very uncomfortable with the idea of us logging what people are typing into the search box. There are a lot of privacy implications. Right now, if we're subject to a subpoena on this information, we can just say "Oh, well, we don't have that information, so we can't give it to you". We'd lose that legal defence, and be forced to give the information out. Also, it's a bit creepy. I'm WONTFIXing this. Sorry. :-(
I don't think it's an awful idea if we do it in aggregate. We don't want to store per-user search data, sure. But having a "what are people looking for" could be cool. Or very boring, if it's like the same top-10 things all the time. Worth looking at :)
Also, like RC, it can be limited to a certain pool or buffer, like the last 24 hours, or the most recent 10,000 searches. Maybe "top five trending searches, rising and falling", which at least will have a very high churn. Or something slightly less expensive. Accuracy is less important than 'nifty'.
Just testing Bug 64373 -- sorry for the noise.
