I would like to ask for the following addition to the MediaWiki: Timestamps for phases of editing would be stored and data made available to users via useful statistics views
Basically add a timestamp for when an edit started and then show the user how much time each edit took.
If this were implemented it would be a matter automating arithmetic to offer a metric "bytes / minute" for edits for the user to view.
Exploring the idea deeper it would seem natural to
- record the times spent in previews
- record the times spent looking at diffs
- record time spent in the edit box (in original edit box, previews and in diff views)
- record the time spent outside of the edit box (in original edit box, previews and in diff views)
- ...
Whether any or some of these statistics that can be derived from these timings could/should be visible to all users of the wiki is an open question, but for users themselves definitely these would be useful and perhaps the also to the Wikimedia Analytics Team.
I am requesting this because this kind of feature would greatly help me in keeping track of how much time I've spent editing what in which wiki and I also think that these kind of new features would be welcomed by many MediaWiki users and maintainers.