gerritadmin wrote:

Change 168915 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis:
Set $wgMFAnonymousEditing = true for Italian Wikipedia in November-December 2014

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/168915

Assigning to Reedy per standard permission changes process. Reedy, please update this report if you can't deploy the change; others, feel free to assign this to yourself if you want to deploy it earlier.

"Highest" applies because there are only 4 days left to do this.

I'm not sure how the itwiki community chose the duration for this test, but just so you're aware, there were 1,558 distinct logged in users who made a mobile edit on itwiki between September and October of this year, and they made 8,213 mobile edits in total. This is just to give you an idea of the scale you should anticipate with this test. You should also be aware that when we've looked at the quality of mobile web edits to date, there's a slightly higher rate of vandalism and test edits. It's not substantially higher, just a few percentage points greater than what you see coming from new users on desktop, but again this is something to keep in mind throughout the test period.

I'm curious how you plan to evaluate the success or failure of this experiment. Are you simply interested in seeing what happens, or do you have specific metrics in mind (e.g., a specific volume of edits, quality of edits, or volume-to-quality ratio)? And if you're interested in quality, how do you plan to measure it? I ask because I've done some work on this in the past (for this paper, among others: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf) that might be of interest. Hand-coding edits is a laborious process, so it helps to have a categorization scheme/code-book in advance :)

(In reply to Maryana Pinchuk from comment #4)

I'm not sure how the itwiki community chose the duration for this test, but
just so you're aware, there were 1,558 distinct logged in users who made a
mobile edit on itwiki between September and October of this year, and they
made 8,213 mobile edits in total. This is just to give you an idea of the
scale you should anticipate with this test. You should also be aware that
when we've looked at the quality of mobile web edits to date, there's a
slightly higher rate of vandalism and test edits. It's not substantially
higher, just a few percentage points greater than what you see coming from
new users on desktop, but again this is something to keep in mind throughout
the test period.

Yes, this was considered in preparatory discussions.

I'm curious how you plan to evaluate the success or failure of this
experiment.

I'd summarise as "did the wiki explode? yes/no", judging from the discussion, but I might be misreading: this wasn't decided yet. As I said in comment 0, this is not a scientific experiment nor a test to verify a certain hypothesis, just like Wikidata pioneering and CirrusSearch tests were not.

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 168915 merged by jenkins-bot:
Set $wgMFAnonymousEditing = true for Italian Wikipedia in November-December 2014

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/168915