This task involves the work of establishing a baseline understanding of how and who is using the `Tools` and `Appearance` menus while using the visual editor.
Learning about how people use these menus will enable us – the Editing and Web Teams – to estimate what the impact might be of hiding these menus for newer volunteers and ultimately, decide whether continuing to do so is worthwhile.
=== Research questions
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|Who is/is not using the "Tools" and "Appearance" menus?|1. What percentage of people elect to hide the `Tools` and/or `Appearance` menus? 2. Of the people who published ≥1 unreverted edit in the main namespace, what percentage of them used the `Tools` and/or `Appearance` menu while editing using the visual editor (desktop)? 3. Of all the unreverted edits people make in the main namespace using the visual editor, what proportion of edits involved someone using the `Tools` and/or `Appearance` menus?
|How heavily do people depend on the "Tools" and "Appearance" menus while editing?| What percentage of editing sessions in the main namespace that result in an unreverted published edit (broken out by experience level) do people use the `Tools` and/or `Appearance` menu within?
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NOTE: each of the metrics will be limited to people who have made ≤100 cumulative edits as they are the people impacted by this change.
=== Background
This investigation is prompted by a desire for two things to be true for volunteers:
- They feel like they have sufficient space (width) to make changes
- They are able to see Edit Checks in close proximity to the content they're related to without any part of the editable content being obfuscated
=== References
- We recently conducted a similar "feature use" analysis of Citoid in T368988.