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 (broken out by experience level) 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 made by people with <100 cumulative edits 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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=== 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.