Erik Moeller wrote: > I'm 100% in favor of de-cluttering prefs. IMO this ought to be done on > the basis of proper metrics of current usage, so that we actually > understand who is using these options today and why.
Some of the RFC is also trying to focus on the history of some of these user preferences. A lot of these preferences are very old and pre-date the Gadgets extension, for example. Some of them would make more sense implemented differently (client-side v. server-side) while some of them ought to simply be moved to a MediaWiki extension or possibly be removed altogether. > Do we have a more complete report than > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences > ? If not, could someone pull one? It would be ideal to not only have > prefs listed by frequency, but to also exclude users from the set > who've not been recently active. That report is based on the Toolserver's MySQL view of the user_properties database table called "user_properties_anonym" (the report's Python source code can be found one layer below at /Configuration). To get aggregate stats about user preferences, it requires someone with shell access querying the database. I think everyone who's commented on the RFC agrees that stats would be helpful. Does this require an RT ticket or a Bugzilla ticket or an e-mail to the analytics people or something else? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
