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Articleinfo should display distribution of edits by visual/wikitext and desktop/mobile/app modes
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Articleinfo should display distribution of edits by visual/wikitext and desktop/mobile/app modes.

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This can be helpful to track how a gadget is being used by users, for example (for us in ruWP), or which editing modes are used by users on forum pages etc. Compiling the list of tags is pretty straightforward, see e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags

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stjn renamed this task from Articleinf should display distribution of edits by visual/wikitext and desktop/mobile/app modes to Articleinfo should display distribution of edits by visual/wikitext and desktop/mobile/app modes.Feb 5 2024, 9:07 PM
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This is a fantastic idea! I'm hoping for most users, it won't be too costly in terms of performance. Related, but probably more costly than what's being asked here T342402: Add an approximate count of a user's non-automated edits to the main XTools edit count page

I was talking about page info, but it could be done for users as well.

Hehe yes of course, your description couldn't have been clearer!! Forgive me as I'm currently quite jet-lagged :)

In the case of ArticleInfo, there's no performance impact whatsoever, and this should be an easy addition. It may be a few weeks before I can get to this.

This can be helpful to track how a gadget is being used by users

If the gadget uses a tag, it's a matter of just adding it to the configuration at meta:MediaWiki:XTools-AutoEdits.json. You can request changes on the talk page. I see there's a backlog there, which I'll try to get to.

Yeah, I know about tags, I more so meant that on certain pages, it would allow us in ruWP to see how much a gadget is used on mobile/desktop.

Alien333 triaged this task as Medium priority.May 26 2025, 9:27 AM
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Really shouldn't be complicated. For T342402 which I've just done we already get the tag list; only have to check if mobile's in it.

So in the ends the tags for this are visualeditor/everything else, and mobile edit/everything else. (We might do a breakdown of mobile edit into mobile web edit and mobile app edit).

I'm being a tiny bit thick again. The list I just compiled is by user. On the other hand, I believe we already read all revisions for a page in pagehistory, so getting the tags won't be too much of a bother.

Alien333 changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 19 2025, 7:45 PM
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