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Count the times the special page Special:Search was used
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Description

In order for the analysis in the parent ticket to work, please do the following:

For all searches

  • within the Wikimedia cluster
  • executed through a web request
  • executed from the special page Special:Search

Track their existence, and note whether

  • this search was executed from Special:Search and the user has AdvancedSearch enabled or not

Event Timeline

Lea_WMDE triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 21 2018, 4:48 PM
Lea_WMDE created this task.
Lea_WMDE moved this task from Backlog to Tickets ready for pickup on the Advanced-Search board.

@Lea_WMDE

  • it seems there is no way to differentiate between human and bot from the Cirrus search requests table;
  • it seems there is no way to differentiate between whether the user had the AdvancedSearch enabled or not.

Could you please be more specific about what you mean by

"within the wikimedia cluster"

Thanks.

thiemowmde renamed this task from Count the times Special:Page search was used to Count the times the special page Special:Search was used.Mar 13 2018, 1:14 PM
thiemowmde updated the task description. (Show Details)

Closing this ticket as it want meant for necessary backend development. However, everything @GoranSMilovanovic needs exists already and is specified in T187038: Measure usefulness of special:search page with advancedSearch