On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Subramanya Sastry schreef op 2015/06/20 om 10:49:
>
>  On 06/20/2015 11:45 AM, Arlo Breault wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>>
>>>> There may be more - I'm still looking for these.
>>>>
>>> I was reading the discussion on gradually enabling VE for new accounts
>>> [3] and
>>> Kww writes there,
>>>
>>> "Further, we still have issues with stray nowiki tags being scattered
>>> across articles.
>>> Until those are addressed, the notion that VE doesn't cause extra work
>>> for
>>> experienced editors is simply a sign that the metrics used to analyze
>>> effort were
>>> wrong. Jdforrester, can you explain how a study that was intended to
>>> measure
>>> whether VE caused extra work failed to note that even with the current
>>> limited use,
>>> it corrupts articles at this kind of volume [4]? Why would we want to
>>> encourage
>>> such a thing?”
>>>
>>> Makes me sad.
>>>
>>
>> User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (Sherry Snyder) has noted there that User:Kww
>> might have been confused by the fact that the filter includes nowikis
>> added by editors during normal wikitext editing ( see
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53421 ). In reality, the number of
>> nowikis from VE edits are a minor fraction of the nowiki entries there
>> (which I verified a couple days back by clicking through to the diffs in
>> the AbuseLog), and the couple of sources of those nowiki insertions
>> might have already been fixed as noted earlier in this thread.
>>
>> All that said, yes, we do want to and will continue fixing any sources
>> of nowikis that Parsoid is introducing.
>>
>>
> Last I looked, the edits from Visual Editor were still a trivially small
> percentage of edits, much smaller than the "minor fraction" noted here.
> Where is the actual percentage tracked these days?
> KWW
>
>

Hi Kww.

Re: the metrics are at pages such as
http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-metrics for Enwiki, and
similar for some of the other larger Wikipedias (De, Es, Fr, He, It, Nl,
Pl, Pt, Ru, Sv).

Re: the various types of nowiki: As far as I know, the quickest way to find
out how many nowiki tags are introduced by VE is actually checking the log
of recent edits made with VE,[1] and looking for the nowiki tag on it.
However, this still doesn’t tell us whether the nowiki tag is the result of
a bug, if it’s a relic of a nowiki bug which is actually fixed but still
occurring due to cache issues (e.g. phab:T68628), if it was introduced
manually by the user either by typing it (ignoring a warning) or by
copy/pasting wikitext in VE, or whether it was correctly added [2], etc.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=&tagfilter=visualeditor&title=Special%3ARecentChanges

[2] See e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty_and_the_Beast_%28Disney_song%29&curid=3725773&diff=667656867&oldid=667643401

Hope that helps,
Quiddity / Nick
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