Research talk:Mobile anonymous apocalypse
Notes from Jon Robson[edit]
Jon did some preliminary statistics. See https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-April/009037.html. Here's a copy paste of some summary statistics that were worked out a few replies into the thread:
- All edits up 54%
- Edits from logged in users down 20%
- Errors up 510%
- First edits by logged in users down 43%
- New account creation up by 92%
--Halfak (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
quarry and other stats tools[edit]
- Daily anonymous mobile edits, Italian Wikipedia: ~400-500 edits/day (RC)
- toollabs:maintgraph/view/edits.html shows daily edit stats: select "Variazione", "Edit utenti anonimi".
- Daily anonymous mobile edits, German Wikipedia: ~200 edits/day (RC)
Interesting. Looking casually through deWP recentchanges, i see small edits, and: more big deletions than big additions, actually just 1 edit adding (+550) bytes and with perfect ref (!! how!?!). --Atlasowa (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
- Daily anonymous mobile edits, Portuguese Wikipedia: almost nothing until 2015-04-02, since: ~200-250 edits/day (RC) --Atlasowa (talk) 14:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
- mobile WP edits in portuguese (Interface Movel@Tool Labs – Ferramentas para projetos lusófonos) --Atlasowa (talk) 13:42, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
- Dashboard: New mobile account registrations
- urdu WP RecentChanges: IP mobile+edit
- english WP RecentChanges: IP mobile+edit --Atlasowa (talk) 16:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Link list[edit]
For reference:
- T55069 Obstacles to enabling MobileFrontend for anonymous users (tracking) (filed in August 2013)
- mw:Mobile wikitext editing
- mw:Talk:Mobile wikitext editing#Anonymous mobile editing (2014 discussion)
- Italian Wikipedia:
- it.m.wikipedia.org
- Research:The sudden decline of Italian Wikipedia
- Research:Anonymous mobile editing in Italian Wikipedia
- WikimediaMobile: Anonymous editing and Italian Wikipedia (mailinglist, December 2014) stats
- it:Wikipedia:Sondaggi/Sperimentazione: dare agli anonimi gli stessi permessi nel sito mobile (october 2014)
- it:Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Permesso di editing agli IP nel sito mobile - fine della sperimentazione (december 2014)
- Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2015-04#Proposal: restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites
- WikimediaMobile: Anonymous editing impact on mobile (mailinglist, April 29 2015)
- German Wikipedia:
- T54165 Links to talk pages in mobile view
- T91752 Mobile editor needs basic formatting tools
- T95396 Inform the user, when there is a new message on their talk page
etc. --Atlasowa (talk) 11:08, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
- So awesome! Thank you for gathering these references. :) --Halfak (WMF) (talk) 13:44, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
- Feel free to add or fix :-) --Atlasowa (talk) 16:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Context[edit]
As I understand it from the proposal, this affected wikipedias for all languages.
It seems that worldwide, April had 12.5 M edits, vs 10.4 M for March across all the wikipedias[1], an increase of 20%. That should be factored in to the other statistics.
263,986 mobile edits is about 2.4% of the overall 12.5 million edits for April 2015 prorated over those 26 days. --Nealmcb (talk) 07:32, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
How is the Hourly edits and API edits (all namespaces) dataset related to the above? It doesn't seem to fit in - e.g. when you change the settings to smooth by day (24 hours), it shows about 6 K edits per hour = 5 M edits last April, vs about 3.2 M for enwiki and 12.5 M for all wikis. Nealmcb (talk) 18:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Error types[edit]
Adding up the attempted edits for event_action is error or success, I see 58,394 + 263,986 = 322,380 or more attempted edits.
So 58,394 errors is 18% of edit attempts. See these links for inquires into what common sorts of errors might be: