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Determine number of logged-in editors using each skin on English Wikipedia
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Description

Background

We would like to re-run the analysis from T180860, which looks at the number of users for each skin among logged-in editors, with a specific focus on English Wikipedia. We would like to see what number of logged-in editors on enwiki have opted into the new Vector 2022 skin and compare that to the usage of other skins

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Result

Below table summarized the skin status on 2022-09-02 in percentage of the editors who edited on content pages at least once on English Wikipedia between 2021-09-01 and 2022-08-31.

Skin nameNum of editorsPercentage of editors
vector59989695.51%
monobook134942.15%
vector-202293011.48%
timeless24350.39%
modern12730.2%
minerva12030.19%
cologneblue4980.08%
amethyst10%

Note:

  • The default skin version on English Wikipedia by 2022-08-31 is vector (legacy).
  • The skin value in user_properties table is interpreted based on the documentation in T180860.
  • Code notebook

Below table summarized the skin status on 2022-09-14 in percentage of the editors who edited on content pages at least once on English Wikipedia between 2021-09-01 and 2022-08-31.
Vector-2022 increased share from 1.48% to 1.67%. The growth is from users switching from vector skin to vector-2022.

Skin nameNum of editorsPercentage of editors
vector59867995.32%
monobook135042.15%
vector-2022104871.67%
timeless24490.39%
modern12710.2%
minerva12130.19%
cologneblue4970.08%
amethyst10%

Event Timeline

ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to Analyst Consultation on the Web-Team-Backlog board.
jwang renamed this task from Determine number of logged-in users using each skin on English Wikipedia to Determine number of logged-in editors using each skin on English Wikipedia.Sep 1 2022, 5:38 PM
jwang updated the task description. (Show Details)

@jwang - we've been running some banners over the past week. Could you repeat the query to see if these have had any effect on the results? Thank you!

Hi! :) Is it possible to get the same statistics for other large projects? I am personally interested in ruwiki.

Hi @Iniquity. This is about enwiki only because now, we're focusing on enwiki. We're making plans on when to approach the remainder of large wikis, incl. ruwiki, with the direct question about the deployment as the default. Before we initiate such discussions, we'll put up banners encouraging active people to opt in voluntarily on an individual basis. The numbers will change significantly. I presume that in the messages opening the discussions, we'll share the statistics.

we've been running some banners over the past week. Could you repeat the query to see if these have had any effect on the results?

Below table summarized the skin status on 2022-09-14 in percentage of the editors who edited on content pages at least once on English Wikipedia between 2021-09-01 and 2022-08-31.
Vector-2022 increased share from 1.48% to 1.67%. The growth is from users switching from vector skin to vector-2022.

Skin nameNum of editorsPercentage of editors
vector59867995.32%
monobook135042.15%
vector-2022104871.67%
timeless24490.39%
modern12710.2%
minerva12130.19%
cologneblue4970.08%
amethyst10%
jwang updated the task description. (Show Details)

@ovasileva , mark it as resolved. Feel free to reopen if you have any followup questions.