Talk:Link transit: Difference between revisions
simplest display: superscript on the ordinary page display showing the number of times that particular link was transited
Tim Starling (talk | contribs) (pretty graph pictures?) |
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::::Of course we care about review, but wouldn't that be better served by popularity data than link transit data? What would you do with link transit information? How do you "elaborate" a link? The best use of it I can think of is to pick a small set of related articles, and draw pretty graph pictures. A noble goal, to be sure, but it would require a change to the program below to generate such data efficiently. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 06:30, 6 Sep 2004 (EEST) | ::::Of course we care about review, but wouldn't that be better served by popularity data than link transit data? What would you do with link transit information? How do you "elaborate" a link? The best use of it I can think of is to pick a small set of related articles, and draw pretty graph pictures. A noble goal, to be sure, but it would require a change to the program below to generate such data efficiently. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 06:30, 6 Sep 2004 (EEST) | ||
:::::Pictures aren't really the point. What if one were able to simply see the number of times that a link was transited in the past month, as a superscripted number ("exponent") on that link? Then it would just fit in the regular page display. It would give some idea of the typical paths followed through pages. | |||
This matters because I need to know what the output format should be, and I need to have some way to justify using server resources to generate such data. | This matters because I need to know what the output format should be, and I need to have some way to justify using server resources to generate such data. | ||