It looks like about 10% of highly active Enwiki editors have used VE in the past month (across all namespaces): http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/4795
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > On a very non-scientific measure of how few editors currently use V/E, I > took some snapshots of the most recent 500 mainspace edits > <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500&days=30>yesterday > and was getting circa 1% tagged as visual editor, I've just run two sample > this afternoon and the first had not a single edit tagged Visual editor and > the other only four, so unless some of those experienced users using V/e > have opted out of having their edits tagged V/E, I'm assuming "gobs and > gobs" are either on other language wikis, heavily skewed to a time of day I > haven't sampled or big in number but still too small a proportion to > account for the increase in the number of editors doing >100 edits per > month. > > On 17 August 2015 at 15:54, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> There are gobs and gobs* of people using VE. Many of them are experienced >> editors. >> >> I'm also interested in looking at VE adoption over time (especially by >> veteran editors). I'll sniff around and let y'all know if I find anything. >> >> No idea what might be causing the boost in active editor numbers. But >> it's exciting to see :) >> >> Anyone else have data that bears on these questions? >> >> - J >> >> *non-scientific estimate drawn from anecdata >> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:53 AM, WereSpielChequers < >> werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That's an interesting theory, but are there many people actually using >>> V/E now? >>> >>> I've just gone back through recent changes looking for people using it, >>> and apart from half a dozen newbies I've welcomed I'm really not seeing >>> many V/E edits. >>> >>> Looking at the history of Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&offset=&limit=500&action=history> >>> the last 500 edits go back three months. So apart from the Interior, you >>> and I Kerry I'm not sure there is a huge number of people testing it, and I >>> wasn't testing it in the first 6 months of this year. I did see some >>> research where they were claiming that retention rates for V/E editors were >>> now as good as for people using the classic editor, but I would be >>> surprised if there were enough people using V/E to make a difference to >>> these figures, especially as this is about the editors doing over 100 edits >>> a month. >>> >>> I agree it would be interesting to track the take-up of the VE (fully >>> or partially) by editor by year of original signup. But I think the long >>> awaited boost from V?E editing is yet to come, if the regulars have started >>> to increase that is likely to be due to something else. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> On 15 August 2015 at 15:11, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Is there any way of telling what proportion of these 8% appear to be >>>> using the Visual Editor either exclusively or partially? It might be >>>> interesting to track the take-up of the VE (fully or partially) by editor >>>> by year of original signup. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Kerry >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: >>>> wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of * >>>> WereSpielChequers >>>> *Sent:* Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:12 PM >>>> *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities < >>>> wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; The Wikimedia Foundation >>>> Research Committee mailing list <rco...@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>> *Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] Has the recent increase in English >>>> wikipedia's core community gone beyond a statistical blip? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> With 8% more editors contributing over 100 edits in June 2015 than in >>>> June 2014 <https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm>, we >>>> have now had six consecutive months where this particular metric of the >>>> core community is looking positive. One or two months could easily be a >>>> statistical blip, especially when you compare calender months that may have >>>> 5 weekends in one year and four the next. But 6 months in a row does begin >>>> to look like a change in pattern. >>>> >>>> As far as caveats go I'm aware of several of the reasons why raw edit >>>> count is a suspect measure, but I'm not aware of anything that has come in >>>> in this year that would have artificially inflated edit counts and brought >>>> more of the under 100 editors into the >100 group. >>>> >>>> I know there was a recent speedup, which should increase subsequent >>>> edit rates, and one of the edit filters got disabled in June, but neither >>>> of those should be relevant to the Jan-May period. >>>> >>>> Would anyone on this list be aware of something that would have >>>> otherwise thrown that statistic? >>>> >>>> Otherwise I'm considering submitting something to the Signpost. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan T. Morgan >> Senior Design Researcher >> Wikimedia Foundation >> User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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