Makes sense to me – the other option would be to automatically generate a string in the edit summary, like vandalfighting and semi-automated editing tools do. Tags can be a little finicky to work with when you're doing data processing & analysis, because they require joining with the revision table on revision IDs. If we're capturing the relevant info in the edit summary, that's stored in the revision table and thus requires one less extra join step :)
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
For backwards compatibility reasons could all edits be tagged 'mobile edit' and could we append additional tags for app edits? e.g. mobile edit, mobile web edit mobile edit, mobile app edit
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
One problem I see with this is "OMG WIKIPEDIA REPORTS WHAT I'M USINGONEONEONE" even though e.g. Twitter does essentially the same.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey everyone,
Howie and I were chatting today about the users we're expecting on Apps. We suspect that the nature of the app will attract a different user base from Web and perhaps also Desktop, and that may mean we need to tailor
the
features that go into the app to that user base. We'd like some data to
test
that hypothesis
Right now the tagging system just tags all edits are made on mobile, and there's no way to distinguish between apps and web. We'd like to change that.
Splitting the tags would allow us to identify users that edit just on
apps
and figure out if they are actually different. All in all, there's
potential
for creating some really awesome data to analyse.
My preferred solution is for us to have three tags for Mobile: Mobile
Web,
iOS App, and Android app. That way, we can generate usage statistics
really
easily for both iOS and Android independently of each other, and also compare those to each other.
There is also the possibility of tagging all edits as mobile using the current tag, then additionally tagging edits as iOS and Android respectively. That makes the numbers between Web and Apps harder to
compare,
so I prefer the first option.
Thoughts, guys?
Thanks, Dan
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