On 11 March 2014 16:33, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > As the person who gathered the data, that's a far more accurate way of representing them, yep. -- Oliver Keyes Product Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
