The mobile apps are definitely in the wild, my understanding (from some checks in the past and from the discussion in the other thread) was that it was just the 'normal' useragent for the phone with the addition of a WikipediaMobile identifier at the front (so that you could tell it was from the app). They aren't very common but I have seen some which I knew were app driven.
The reason this came up was that one of the discussions that came up in that other thread was to rewrite the user agent to be less unique which would make it harder for CUs to tell users apart (especially once they found out, which they often do and these discussions are on public lists). The compromise that Yuvi proposed was to send a 'special' user agent for checkuser so that it didn't lose the fingerprinting ability as much. James James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:27 PM, ENWP Pine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I got the impression from this discussion that the mobile apps aren't > currently in use so the CUs have had no experience working with them. It > sounds like I was mistaken. > > Toby, what UA data do CUs currently see from edits made through the mobile > apps? > > CUs, is the information that you're currently getting from edits from the > new mobile apps a good balance the concerns raised previously in this > discussion? > > Pine > > > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:36:16 -0700 > > From: Toby Negrin <[email protected]> > > To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who > > has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." > > <[email protected]> > > Cc: mobile-l <[email protected]>, Oliver Keyes > > <[email protected]>, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Analytics] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile and CheckUser (Was > > [mobile-l] Wikipedia App User Agents) > > Message-ID: > > <caajh0eyqpfdke3p6q5fxecone5yc7uss_vs9hcb5khoxz6-...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > Hey folks -- we aren't considering changing any of the data that goes > into > > checkuser. That tool will be unchanged. > > > > This discussion only concerns backend logging EventLogging and page view > > analytics. > > > > thanks, > > > > -Toby > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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