[Foundation-l] preferences statistics

[K. Peachey]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 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.
Yes, we d{o/id} record some stats for the UI updates, you just need to
find someone willing to grab it since there is no friendly interface
for it.
-Peachey