Greetings all, and happy 1 month anniversary of the tablet redirect :)

I've got some data to share on new tablet, phone, and app editors and how
they stack up against new desktop editors. This is enwiki only for now; I
await the glorious return of Dario to help us out with global data :)

*New active mobile editors*

Our metric for new active mobile editors is 5+ edits within 30 days of
registration, so we don't quite have the full numbers on the first month of
newly registered users yet (because people who signed up yesterday haven't
had time to reach active status). But here's today's snapshot of the
percent of newly registered users we've converted to active editors in the
last 30 days across all out different platforms:

[image: Inline image 1]
Note that the trend Dario observed still holds – both newly registered
tablet and mobile site users are being converted to 5+ editors at a higher
rate than desktop.

Slightly concerning is the conversion rate on the Android app – I'd have
expected this to be higher, more in line with mobile site editors on
phones. We'll need to figure out if this is due to users editing
anonymously on the app instead of signing in and counting toward our new
active user count.

*New user productivity*

I was also interested in the volume of contribution we're seeing across
each of the platforms, to get a sense of how much new folks are
contributing. So I ran the numbers for bytes changed (added, removed, and
total changed) by newly registered users across all our different platforms:

[image: Inline image 2]
Though mobile site editors (both tablet and phone) are reaching 5+ edits at
a higher rate than desktop users, it looks like desktop editors make
significantly bigger edits in terms of bytes. Not super surprising, given
the smaller screen real-estate and greater difficulty in contributing
longform text, but it's good to validate that with real data. Note again
that Android app editors are on the lower end of bytes contributed.

To me, these two graphs raise the question of whether mobile site editors
(on both tablets & phones) make a larger number of small edits as opposed
to one big edit like they might on desktop. I don't know if we'll be able
to answer that definitively anytime soon, but it's definitely something to
think about and dig into more in the future...

-- 
Maryana Pinchuk
Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
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