On 11 March 2014 16:02, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Editors, it seems, chose Monobook 2:1 over Vector as
of this time last
year, when there were many other skins; that is, they make the conscious
choice. (I also think there's something really wonky about the "power
user"
numbers. There's no way there are less than 15,000 users active in the
last six months with over 1000 edits across all of the projects.) There's
a lot of value in paying attention to Monobook.
This is based on a mis-understanding of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats.
Specifically:
One limitation of the data is that we could only retrieve users who had
actively set a preference for their skin; users who
had not done this
displayed with a null value in the relevant table. Such users are not
included in the numbers for Vector in the next section, which leads to an
*underrepresentation
of Vector*. Based on an approximate
calculation,[3]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_ski…
this
may *exclude up to 85 per cent of users*.
[My emphases.]
To put it another way, all the data shows is that of active users who'd
made over 1000 edits, 1/3 had actively changed their skin setting to Vector
and were still there at the time.
Example scenarios:
- Users who opted-in early to Vector when Monobook was still default
(there were lots of us back then).
- Users who chose to go with Cologne Blue back in the day, then Simple,
then later picked Vector.
- Users who stayed with Classic when Monobook was introduced (*waves
walking stick*), then later moved to Vector.
Making a linear assumption (which is also wrong) would suggest that there
were ~100,000 active users with >= 1000 edits, of whom ~90% use Vector, ~9%
use Monobook, and ~1% use Cologne Blue or Modern. 10:1 in favour of Vector
is more representative than 2:1 in favour of Monobook, though some
up-to-date data would be appreciated at some point, I'd suggest.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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