On 11 March 2014 17:05, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > James Forrester wrote: > >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, this may exclude up to 85 per cent of users. > > I'm having difficulty understanding how this point would matter for > power-users. Can't we presume that every power-user has set his or her > skin user preference? If so, we can see that roughly 63% of power-users > use Monobook. Given the reality of who largely maintains and protects the > wikis (i.e., power-users), the number of Monobook users certainly seems > significant to me. Perhaps I just need to think further on this, though. >
Not necessarily. I think we can assume power users who registered pre-Vector have totally done that, either to explicitly opt-in to vector or to stay with monobook or CB or [one of the other now-removed skins that still appear in the user_properties table]. But power users who registered after the Vector default switch - I can't see a reason for them to explicitly enable it, if they're comfortable with it. Anecdotally I know a few strange creatures who fall into that category, although personally I prefer Monobook. -- Oliver Keyes Product Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
