Does anyone know how to pass this along the chain (view->edit->save)? Ideally, we could use a query string parameter. There are no useful docs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tags , so we'll have to dig into the code.

swalling wrote:

Adding Kaldari, since he has experience adding tags for WikiLove.

swalling wrote:

Adding Maxsem as well, since he did this for MobileFrontEnd.

tchay wrote:

Possibility?

You use the tags interface to

tchay wrote:

Oops! Adding Andrew Garret.

The code is in ChangTags.php

Possibility?

1. Use the tags interface to create a tag on the getting started event during account creation: say "onboarded"

2. During an edit save, you check the tags database for the tag for that user

SELECT count(*) from change_tag as ct AND logging as log WHERE ct.ct_log_id=log.log_id AND log.log_type=1 AND ct.tag="onboarded" AND log.log_user=$user_id AND (some time window filter?)

3. If this returns anything then you add a (different) tag to the edit tags that allows this to be tracked.

swalling wrote:

I'm not sure a time window and tagging of all edits by newly-registered users within the window works. Lots of users edit shortly after account creation, but are not editing one of the articles selected from the list on Special:GettingStarted. We only want edits to those pages, by people who came from the Special page.

tchay wrote:

Only newly registered users that have been onboarded, but your point is taken.

We could log a different event since logging stores log_page and join against that.

(In reply to comment #3)

Adding Maxsem as well, since he did this for MobileFrontEnd.

No, what I did was a quick AbuseFilter hack. Look in VE for real solution:)

They're using a totally different VisualEditor-specific API back/middleend, calling the API, then calling ChangeTags::AddTags after the save is done:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.git;a=blob;f=ApiVisualEditor.php;h=b0fe2048a450cf9ee2e158931a10bf98d8ab5723;hb=refs/heads/master#l220

That approach is not workable for us.

They also use a hook to list it as an available tag, which we could do:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor.git;a=blob;f=VisualEditor.hooks.php;h=d4660cb0eda0fe54e2ea00905c29182a9d2f4828;hb=refs/heads/master#l53

The specs for the server-side logging API that Dario hashed out with S and me earlier this morning would totally cover this. I think we can do it. I'll shoot for getting this done in time for the deployment window next Thursday (Jan 10th).

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/42198/ is mostly done.