Is the data from the analysis we did on MobileWebSectionUsage up on
meta wiki yet? If so could you link to it?


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> User:Casliber has started an editing contest on the English Wikipedia
> focused on improving or adding lead (intro) sections:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Take_the_lead! (open until
> this Sunday, January 31)
>
> Notably, the invitation cites mobile readers as a motivation:
>
> "Many articles on the English Wikipedia have deficient or poorly
> written leads that do not summarise the article or present the
> information in an engaging manner. With increased mobile phone usage,
> this is becoming more of an issue, because mobile interfaces often
> show the lead alone, with other sections collapsed."
>
> I added the subsequent sentence, to support this point with data from
> the analysis that JonR and I did some weeks ago for the
> MobileWebSectionUsage data. This also lead to some interesting
> community discussion in several places, and someone added that chart
> to 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_and_manage_a_good_lead_section
> . It's a great example of how we can support editors' work with
> readership data beyond mere pageviews (I also submitted a Wikimania
> talk about this topic earlier this month).
>
> --
> Tilman Bayer
> Senior Analyst
> Wikimedia Foundation
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>
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