Last modified: 2013-03-14 13:42:38 UTC
On Wikipedia, many keyword searches for an ambiguous keyword lead to a page about one of the possible meanings of this keyword rather than leading to the disambiguation page. This is desirable in cases where the vast majority of searches for this keyword end up leading to that particular page. At the moment though, someone (i.e. a human) selects whether to go straight to the disambiguation page or to a particular specific page (which then provides a link back to the disambiguation page to satisfy false hits). Would it be possible to make this dynamic/automatic based on statistics: Collect statistics on which of the entries on a disambiguation page are the most popular. If one of them is clearly more popular than all the others, then the keyword search should redirect straight to that. Otherwise the keyword search should point at the disambiguation page.
