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YoY mobile edit rates in mobile-heavy wiki segment
Closed, ResolvedPublicJan 24 2019

Description

What's requested:
A YoY monthly mobile edit rate for the last 3 months (oct-dec) on mobile heavy wikis

The target in the annual plan was:
"Number of edits on mobile increases by 20% year-over-year in target languages. "

For this one, we have a mobile-heavy wiki segment that we report to the board on, but we currently report to the board on "all edits". So a modified query to generate mobile edits Yo'Y is what is required here.

Even if we show a 20% increase, we will need to explain that it doesn't come from interventions, but that our experiments (such as iOS) are promising.

Why it's requested:
I need to report on our progress to date against some goals we had in the annual plan. This report will likely be shared publicly, but few people besides c-levels will notice. I already started adding data where we already had it

When it's requested:
The report is due Jan 25th, so please target the 24th for completion.

Other helpful information:

Details

Due Date
Jan 24 2019, 8:00 AM

Event Timeline

@JKatzWMF: @nettrom_WMF will pull # of edits on mobile YoY in target languages

Can you clarify this part of the request? (We don't have time for an impact analysis; I wasn't sure if this was just added context?)

Even if we show a 20% increase, we will need to explain that it doesn't come from interventions, but that our experiments (such as iOS) are promising.

@kzimmerman @nettrom_WMF - no request here, just offering context for how the data will be used. I'll do the explaining.

@JKatzWMF: @nettrom_WMF will pull # of edits on mobile YoY in target languages

Can you clarify this part of the request? (We don't have time for an impact analysis; I wasn't sure if this was just added context?)

Even if we show a 20% increase, we will need to explain that it doesn't come from interventions, but that our experiments (such as iOS) are promising.

I defined "mobile edits" as edits made through both the mobile site and the apps (since the request mentions iOS), and used the canonical list of mobile-heavy wikis. I removed edits by users with a bot flag. Comparing Oct–Dec 2017 with Oct–Dec 2018, I get the following:

2017: 242,858
2018: 340,950 (+40.4%)

Let me know if any changes are needed, and I'll adapt my queries and code and report back.

@nettrom_WMF @kzimmerman this is exactly what I needed. No more, no less and on time. Thanks!

nettrom_WMF added a subscriber: nshahquinn-wmf.

Awesome!

While I'm closing this, I'll also thank @Neil_P._Quinn_WMF for pointing me to the right wikis, and for having the underlying data readily available, which made the work easy.

The target in the annual plan was:
"Number of edits on mobile increases by 20% year-over-year in target languages. "

We should be aware that this is from the org-wide annual plan, not from the more specific Audiences annual plan which gives 10% as target instead - e.g. "Mobile web edit rate on target wikis: 10% increase", similarly for the other three related team goals. Also, "target wikis" are interpreted very differently there, see e.g. T210660 for the web team's version; I believe the apps teams may not be using the mobile-heavy segment for this either. Where did we document the decision to interpret "target wikis" in the org-wide annual plan as mobile-heavy wikis? This would also be useful input for T215976. (Back in July, there had been a sense that these are two different things - will also follow up on an email thread from back then.)