For the dots, is knowing when the cite/link feature is used sufficient, or do you need specifically that it was a toolbar interaction? (Or even more specifically, a toolbar interaction while the dot is present?) If it's the former, we do have that already.

Further question: the notices popup opens by default if there are any notices. Is what you want effectively whether people re-open it?

Change 469631 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; owner: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Analytics: track more things for Growth

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/469631

That patch tracks the blue dots and the ? button. It's explicitly ignoring notices while I await an answer on the initially-open thing.

Thanks for working on this, @DLynch, and for the clarification questions.

For blue dots: the thing we're trying to get at is whether users see the blue dots and are like, "Oooh, I wonder what this is" and go click on it soon after opening the editor for the first time. What do you think will record data that will help us know that? Perhaps all we need is just to know that they use Link or Cite, and if they do it at the beginning of the session, it probably means that they were like "Oooh, I wonder what this is"?

For notices: I forgot that this defaults to open. Yes, we definitely want to know if people re-open it. I think that's all we can really do, because it doesn't really make sense to track closing it. For people for whom it defaults to open, they will close it by doing literally anything besides clicking on it. Maybe the simplest thing is to just track every time someone clicks on its toolbar icon.

Okay, patch is updated to handle these things. Tracking will cover popups opening via an actual click on the button rather than any arbitrary opening. Blue dots will be tracked via the education popup they trigger opening -- see the linkEducationPopup action in the screenshot below, followed by link which means the popup closed and the regular link action continued.

Looks like this is still waiting for code review.

@Esanders @matmarex Do either of you think you could get this reviewed before the branch is cut today?

Change 469631 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Analytics: track more things for Growth

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/469631

According to the release notes, this did get merged before the branch was cut, so will be live everywhere today.