After many a hearty SQL battle, we finally have click tracking deployed on the wikimedia projects!
What’s being tracked?
Which buttons are clicked on the toolbar during editing
What information is being recorded?
The button clicked, the time of the click, total edit count of the user clicking, and edit count for the last 1, 3, 6 months
What information is NOT being recorded?
Individually identifiable information of any sort (eg who exactly clicked what) and anything that would violate our privacy policy in general
Why?
As we revamp the UI, rather than randomly throwing buttons up there we think are pretty (we think they’re all pretty), we thought we’d put buttons up and features that people actually use. Novel, right?
What about the edit history and stuff?
We figure the way a novice editor uses the toolbar is different form a ‘power’ editor, and that there’s probably some gradation in between. Is there? Well, that’s what we hope to find out…
Nimish Gautam, Research Analyst
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