As the Audiences department prepares to [work on major improves to mobile editing](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Audiences#Outcome_3:_Mobile_Contribution), it's important for us to understand more about the existing landscape of mobile editing that we're trying to affectmany teams are working to understand the high-level patterns of mobile editing (the success rate of edit attempts, the retention of new mobile editors, the revert rate for mobile edits, editors' proportion of mobile edits, and so on).
Potential research qHowever, we'd also like to develop a deeper understanding of the content of mobile edits. Questionsions we'd like to answer include:
* What's the distribution of editors' mobile-desktop splits types of edits do mobile editors generally make? What's the breakdown between copyedits, factual changes to existing content, and additions to new content?
* How big are mobile edits? What's the size distribution among different edit types (e.g. copyediting one paragraph versus copyediting an entire 20 paragraph article)? How many sections of a page do mobile edits generally change?
* What projects have the most mobile editing* How often do mobile editors write on talk pages? How often do they receive responses?
* What types of edits do's the quality of mobile editors makeits? Overall, is it higher or lower than desktop edits? Do theseIf it differ between the various interfaces (iOS appers, Android app,what are the main reasons for that difference? mobile web wikitextFor example, mobile web visual editor)is it that edits contain more factual errors or is it that they're just more poorly formatted?
* How do the quality and value added by mobile edits compare with desktop editsWhat can we learn about users' motivations by studying their edit patterns? For example, can we segment mobile editors by types, size, and pattern of edits made?
* What's the geographic distribution of mobile edits?* Do the results of any of the above differ significantly by key characteristics such as:
* How many new** Editor used (mobile wikitext editors on mobile?, mobile visual editor, iOS app editor...)
* What is the retention rate of mobile editors (new and existing), compared to the rates on desktop?** Geographic location
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Note that these questions are meant to give a general sense of the area of interest: obviously, it won't be possible to answer all of these questions (both because of time and data limitations), and there may be other similar questions that //are// worth answering.