From December 19 to 21 (roughly coinciding with the deploy of 1.33-wmf.9), the number of mobile visual editor abort events dropped from a stable level to 0. This hasn't happened with any other editor or any other interface.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Log abort events when canceling out of visual editing | mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend | master | +33 -24 |
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We expected a drop because the patch for T211156 stopped abort (and ready) from being logged when switching from wikitext to visual, which I suspect was a common source (you could look for ones with the abort_type logged as switchnochange).
Absent that... the only source of abort events is directly clicking the cancel button. I'll investigate whether those are being suppressed somehow. (Note that I don't think e.g. pressing the back button or closing the tab would fire one.)
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Having checked: mobile VE's only source of abort events was (incorrectly) when switching. It has never emitted them for anything else. I'll improve that, so at least canceling out of it will emit them.
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Change 487001 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; owner: DLynch):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Log abort events when canceling out of visual editing
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Change 487001 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Log abort events when canceling out of visual editing
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Yes, it is!
select
date_format(dt, "yyyy-MM-01") as month,
event.abort_type as abort_type,
event.abort_mechanism as abort_mechanism,
count(*) as mobile_ve_aborts
from event_sanitized.editattemptstep
where
event.platform = "phone" and
event.editor_interface = "visualeditor" and
event.action = "abort" and
year = 2019
group by
date_format(dt, "yyyy-MM-01"),
event.abort_type,
event.abort_mechanism
month abort_type abort_mechanism mobile_ve_aborts
2019-02-01 abandon cancel 396
2019-02-01 nochange cancel 3647
2019-03-01 abandon cancel 21988
2019-03-01 nochange cancel 177529