= Request =
==The Problem==
The ReviewStream feed is designed to encourage adoption of newcomer-friendly edit review features in popular antivandalism tools—while improving edit review overall. The new feed will have no effect, however, if it isn't adopted by these programs, so we want to work with the community to provide designs and technical assistance where necessary. But which tools should we focus our attention on? Which will have the biggest effect on newcomers and on the edit-review process generally? Where do we find the biggest bang for our buck?
To know where to put our efforts, it will be extremely helpful to know what tools are most popular and/or most productive. Because time is short and we know the edit research team is busy with a big project, we are happy to confer on ways we can whittle this job down so that we get enough data to make decisions without having this be a huge effort.
One is that we don't need to look at all possible tools. It's our belief that the following are probably the most relevant:
- Huggle
- RTRC
- STIki
- LiveRC
- //Any others?//
Furthermore, we don't need to have exact figures-- ballpark numbers will do, even if it turns out we can't get apples to apples comparisons.
== What Figures Do We Want? ==
I suppose the most useful feature would be the number of edits (reverts, talk page messages left, Thank-yous....) completed during, say, a given month. Failing that, the number of users per tool?
The complication is that we'd ideally like to know this across the eight wikis that are in the initial target group. These are:
- English Wikipedia
- Persian Wikipedia
- Dutch Wikipedia
- Polish Wikipedia
- Portuguese Wikipedia
- Russian Wikipedia
- Turkish Wikipedia
- Wikidata
== Deadline ==
This information would be most useful if we could get it by the beginning of the new year—say, the first week in January.
= Response =
== Do we have a full list? ==
The hardest part of this request is knowing which tools we want to quantify the impact of; this depends more on local knowledge than on analytic skill.
Seven of the sites on the list are Wikipedias, so I went through the [Wikipedia gadget report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets/wikipedia) down to the 2 000 user mark. I didn't find any new ones used for edit review.
For the English Wikipedia, I reviewed the [main list of counter-vandalism tools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools) and checked [views of their wiki pages](https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-02&end=2017-01&pages=Wikipedia:Huggle|Wikipedia:STiki|Wikipedia:Snuggle|User:Henna/VF|User:Lupin/Anti-vandal_tool|Wikipedia:Igloo) for tools that looked like they could conceivably be active (I excluded [Twinkle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle) because it doesn't provide its own patrolling interface). Only Huggle, STiki, and [Igloo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Igloo) had significant pageviews. The [list of site gadgets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget) didn't include anything related to patrolling.
For Wikidata, I reviewed its lists [of external tools](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools) and [of gadgets](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Gadgets) and didn't find anything used to patrol new edits. When I [looked for thing tagged 'wikidata' in the tools directory](https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/search/wikidata), I found one thing: the [reCH](http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/) tool.
== [Huggle](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle) ==
Huggle: Can get a number of action taken by searching edit comments for "WP:HG". Don't think there's any data on installations, although we could look at the number of distinct users. Which wikis is this used on?
** See T134540.
** Look for `User:<user>/huggle3.css`
** [Compare](https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016-02-01&end=2017-02-01&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&page=Wikipedia:Huggle) views to Huggle pages across languages.
== [RTRC](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Tools/Real-Time_Recent_Changes) ==
* RTRC: Can get a number of installations by combining gadget and link counts. Doesn't seem to be any way to get the number of actions taken.
== [STiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:STiki) ==
English Wikipedia: includes `[[Wikipedia:STiki]]` in the edit comment
== [LiveRC](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:LiveRC/Documentation/Pr%C3%A9sentation/en) ==
LiveRC is based on the French Wikipedia (where it has [an edit tag](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Balises)), but that's not in the group we're interested in. According to the gadget report, it is also used at the Polish Wikipedia (1 004 users) and Persian Wikipedia (541 users). Note that many of these users may be inactive.
As far as I can tell, neither of these Wikipedias has an edit tag for LiveRC,
== [reCH](http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/) ==
reCH, which is a Wikidata-specific tool, tags its edits with `OAuth CID: 408` (there's another tag for a previous version, but it wasn't used during the past 30 days). However, it's used for many things other than edit review, so to find reverts you also have to look for edits with the string `undid`. It can be used to patrol changes, but there's no way to attribute particular patrols to the tool.
Over the past 30 days, it was used to make **72 reverts.**
== [Igloo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Igloo) ==
Igloo seems to be available on the English Wikipedia only, where it includes `[[Wikipedia:Igloo|GLOO]]` in its edit comments. Over the past 30 days, it was used to make **74 edits.**
== Queries used ==
```lang=sql
select count(*)
from recentchanges
where rc_comment like "%[[Wikipedia:Igloo|GLOO]]%";
count(*)
74
---
select count(*)
from recentchanges
inner join change_tag
on rc_id = ct_rc_id
where ct_tag = "OAuth CID: 408";
count(*)
72
``