Anonymous editing was enabled on mobile web on 30th March 2015 to all users
(previous it was available in an experimental mode of the site). Now we
have almost a month's worth of data I thought it would be a good time to
check the impact... it's a little disappointing to be honest... but it
depends
How can edits from logged-in users be down 152%? The maximum decrease
should be 100% - and that would mean no edits from logged-in users. Same
for first edits by logged-in users.
I seriously wonder about the number of "accounts" created on mobile - are
we really adding 0.05% of all of the curren
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> On 28 April 2015 at 20:00, Jon Robson wrote:
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> > Details on the queries I ran:
> > In March for a 26 day period before the change:
> > * 170,948 total edits [1]
> > * 169,845 non-anonymous edits [6]
> > ** by 40,658 distinct users [7]
> > * 26,617 users completely their first ever edit
Thanks Robert for the corrections on my math. I sent this late in a long
long day as it has been on my to do list for some time so these numbers
could be discussed. Sadly my brain was obviously not up to it's usual
standards.
Glad you were able to make sense of the numbers and correct them :)
On 2
In the same period during March where 219,012 accounts were created on
mobile there were 228,723 accounts created on desktop [0]
In the same period during April where 419,976 accounts were created on
mobile there were 195,359 accounts created on desktop [1]
The ServerSideAccountCreation event loggi
