Steven agreed. The original question was do people click the watch star when not logged in - do they sign in. We have indeed answered this. Since no one else has voiced any opinion/interest in this. I guess Kenan Wang as product manager for mobile should probably make a call on this.
Either 1) We kill it or 2) We turn it into a new question - what kind of articles do people watch on mobile? I actually think this is a super interesting question to ask from a personal perspective as it gives a sense of the culture that exists in mobile. That said you could probably get that same data from other sources.
Awaiting direction...
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
This schema has been around since the dawn of time. It collects data around the watch star activity.
Currently we don't use it for anything.
I think we should do something about this.
- Create an automation script using SQL [A] that generates regular
reports showing the top ten watch articles on mobile on wikis for each month and publish that somewhere. See Graph [C] to get an idea of what this looks like for January. 2) We may want to do the above but in addition to this stop logging clicks on the watchstar when logged out. The graph generated for January [D] from this data is very different, quicker to run and much more work safe. 3) Kill the schema altogether
The purpose of schemas is to answer a question, either once or on an ongoing basis. It seems like the question with the watchlist schema was about how users in the beta were using the watchlist, particularly about the modified versus all (i.e. bookmarks). Is that right?
If so, it seems like you've answered the question for now. You might want to check this again the future though, and in that case I'd say just leave it. If not, just remove it.
-- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/