Querying RC doesn't seem like a very efficient way of doing this when one wants to track the evolution of Visual Editor usage across days and weeks. But if it is the best option available right now, then maybe.
-Robert On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <ar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Στις 08-07-2013, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 20:17 -0700, ο/η Robert Rohde > έγραψε: >> Various parts of Mediawiki will apply tags to specific edits in recent >> changes and histories. >> >> For example, the recently introduced Visual Editor is adding Tag: >> VisualEditor to all of its edits. >> >> Are such tags included in the XML dumps of Wikipedia? It will be a >> while before a new dump of enwiki is released, but once it is ready, >> I'm wondering if we can use it to track the adoption of Visual Editor >> by looking for such Tags in the dump file. Are the Tags included, and >> if so, which dump files are they contained in? > > Tags are stored separately from revisions in the change_tag table, which > is not dumped. > > If you want to track which edits were made using the Visual Editor, I > would suggest an api query, such as > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctag=visualeditor&rclimit=500 > > Ariel > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
