https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66699
--- Comment #26 from Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> --- (In reply to Matthew Flaschen from comment #25) > (In reply to Steven Walling from comment #23) > > Yes. When you breakdown total active editors every month, there is a very > > large group of editors who return after more than a 30-day break. This type > > of reactivated editor is just as large as the group of people who edit > > month-to-month continuously.[1][2] > > This shows that there are a significant number of people editing with more > than 30 day gaps. > > However, I would bet a lot of them *visited* I Wikimedia site with < 30 day > gaps (e.g. to read an article, maybe from a search). Under this proposal, > that would still extend their session. The truth is we don't know because we never track read-only sessions month to month. The safe bet here, if we want to ensure that *people who opt in* stay logged in, is to lengthen the cookie expiry beyond 30 days. Keep in mind that the change would only impact people who explicitly choose to be remembered. If we were discussing a default login session length, I would probably agree that we should err on the side of being more conservative. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
