On 11 March 2014 16:02, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > Editors, it seems, chose Monobook 2:1 over Vector as of this time last > year, when there were many other skins; that is, they make the conscious > choice. (I also think there's something really wonky about the "power user" > numbers. There's no way there are less than 15,000 users active in the > last six months with over 1000 edits across all of the projects.) There's > a lot of value in paying attention to Monobook. >
This is based on a mis-understanding of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats. Specifically: One limitation of the data is that we could only retrieve users who had > actively set a preference for their skin; users who had not done this > displayed with a null value in the relevant table. Such users are not > included in the numbers for Vector in the next section, which leads to an > *underrepresentation > of Vector*. Based on an approximate > calculation,[3]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats#cite_note-3> > this > may *exclude up to 85 per cent of users*. [My emphases.] To put it another way, all the data shows is that of active users who'd made over 1000 edits, 1/3 had actively changed their skin setting to Vector and were still there at the time. Example scenarios: - Users who opted-in early to Vector when Monobook was still default (there were lots of us back then). - Users who chose to go with Cologne Blue back in the day, then Simple, then later picked Vector. - Users who stayed with Classic when Monobook was introduced (*waves walking stick*), then later moved to Vector. Making a linear assumption (which is also wrong) would suggest that there were ~100,000 active users with >= 1000 edits, of whom ~90% use Vector, ~9% use Monobook, and ~1% use Cologne Blue or Modern. 10:1 in favour of Vector is more representative than 2:1 in favour of Monobook, though some up-to-date data would be appreciated at some point, I'd suggest. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
