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Visual editor emits many init events with platform "other"
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The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor emit many init events with the platform set to other, which shouldn't happen.

According to @DLynch:

The init platform:other issue is that our tracking code tries to work out the platform via platform: ve.init && ve.init.target && ve.init.target.constructor.static.platformType || 'other',
Unfortunately, almost everywhere that we try to log init from hasn't yet loaded the target. Given that most of these are inside ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.init.js, I think we could safely just hardcode platform: 'desktop' in those calls. (Look for trackActivateStart in that file.)

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Neil_P._Quinn_WMF renamed this task from Visual editor many init events with platform "other" to Visual editor emits many init events with platform "other".Sep 5 2018, 11:21 PM
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DLynch claimed this task.Sep 5 2018, 11:24 PM
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Change 455850 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; owner: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] DesktopArticleTarget.init: Pass platform to ve.track directly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/455850

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 12 2018, 2:20 PM

Change 455850 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] DesktopArticleTarget.init: Pass platform to ve.track directly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/455850

Ryasmeen added a subscriber: Ryasmeen.Sep 14 2018, 10:32 PM

Anything for me to check here @DLynch?

DLynch added a comment.Sep 17 2018, 2:20 PM

@Ryasmeen Sort of. You could paste this into your browser console:

ve.trackSubscribe( 'mwedit.init', function(topic, data) { console.log('init', (data && data.platform) ? data.platform : 'MISSING'); } );

...and then activate VE and make sure that it says "init desktop" rather than "init MISSING".

Ryasmeen added a comment.Sep 17 2018, 8:37 PM
In T203618#4589042, @DLynch wrote:

@Ryasmeen Sort of. You could paste this into your browser console:

ve.trackSubscribe( 'mwedit.init', function(topic, data) { console.log('init', (data && data.platform) ? data.platform : 'MISSING'); } );

...and then activate VE and make sure that it says "init desktop" rather than "init MISSING".

Cool! Verified that by switching to VE from different tabs as well.

Neil_P._Quinn_WMF closed this task as Resolved.Sep 24 2018, 4:53 PM

This has been fixed!

select
    left(timestamp, 8) as day,
    count(*) as events
from log.Edit_17541122
where
    event_editor = "visualeditor" and
    event_platform = "other" and
    timestamp >= "20180911"
group by left(timestamp, 8)

         day  events
0   20180911   11167
1   20180912   10766
2   20180913   10711
3   20180914    9889
4   20180915    7868
5   20180916    8627
6   20180917   10980
7   20180918   11441
8   20180919   10839
9   20180920    7384
10  20180921       5
11  20180922       1
12  20180923       1
13  20180924       6
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