[Foundation-l] preferences statistics

[Tisza Gergő]

Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at ...> writes:

> Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites?
> 
> For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every
> skin and how many users have "Show preview before edit box" disabled.
> 
> Correct me if i'm wrong, but the defaults for new users never seem to change
> (except the Vector skin recently) and maybe we could learn something from
> these stats.

Translatewiki has an extension for user option statistics. [1] I recently asked
for it to be enabled on a Wikimedia project, but it hit the review barrier. [2]


[1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:UserOptionStats
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25302