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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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?
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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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...