Hello Pine,
Currently, the Wikimetrics "Bytes added" metric can track cohorts of users
and their editing contributions of the count of bytes added, removed, or
the absolute or net combinations of those, but has the same problem Amir
describes in which it is still only based on the net change recorded each
edit "save" as that is the change data stored for each edit and the data
behind that metric. Pine, you are also correct that Wikimetrics does not
distinguish mobile vs. desktop. Not sure what it would take to integrate
as a new metric feature in Wikimetrics. That would be a question for the
Analytics team. Their work board for current Wikimetrics tasks and backlog
are on Phabricator [1] as well as a separate community requests board [2].
The best way to ask about Wikimetrics is often the mailing list [3] or via
comment on the specific Phabricator tasks.
As far as measuring it differently, Aaron Halfaker would likely be best to
ask as he works to define edit sessions in his research work [4], but he
has also reported mobile edit session capturing as problematic [5].
Hope that is helpful.
Best regards,
Jaime
Links:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/analytics-wikimetrics/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wikimetrics/
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Activity_session
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Activity_session#Mobile.2Fdesktop_s...
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Pine W
wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
> Wikimetrics kind of does this, but I think that mobile and desktop are in
> a single indistinguishable bucket. Pinging Jaime Anstee who might know who
> to ask about adding the ability to segregate mobile edits.
>
> Pine
> On Aug 9, 2015 11:15 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni"
amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did anybody try to count how long are mobile edits?
>>
>> How many characters do people actually type when they edit wiki pages
>> through mobile web and mobile apps?
>>
>> Or, more precisely, how many meaningful keystrokes?
>>
>> A simplistic way would be to measure the number of added characters, but
>> that's not quite correct, because deleting a wrong letter and typing a
>> correct one looks like zero added characters, but actually it's at least
>> two meaningful keystrokes.
>>
>> Is there any measurement like that?
>>
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