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19 February 2025

'Edits' section of mobile app

Ever since downloading the Wikipedia mobile app, I've been wondering whether/how the data (including 'Edit quality' and total edit views) shown in the 'Edits' section of the app (above ‘Suggested edits’) can be accessed through a browser, and also how the 'Edit quality' rating, as given in this section of the app, is calculated.

I would have liked to include a screen grab of the 'Edits' section of the app to clarify what I'm talking about, but I can't upload an image to this post so the following text is a transcription of my statistics as given in the app:

Edits

Contributions		240
Views			212658
Last edited		18/02/2025
Edit quality		Perfect

I can access my raw statistics (eg. individual page views, number of live vs. deleted edits, etc.) using Xtools, but I'm still wondering whether (and, if so, why) the summarised data given in the app is not also provided in the browser.

I'm not sure that the help desk is the right place to be asking this, but if you can point me in the right direction or give me an idea of a possible reason why there's this difference between the app and the browser version, that would be appreciated! :) Pineapple Storage (talk) 15:38, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

For a list of features in the apps that are not in the browser version, see mw:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ. and mw:Wikimedia Apps/iOS FAQ. The Android page has a section mw:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ#Contribution history, which I think includes what you are talking about. (As far as I can see, the iOS app does not have this). It doesn't explicitly say that this information is not available in the web interface, but I've never seen it. ColinFine (talk) 17:19, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@ColinFine Thank you for these links! I wasn't aware of the MW:Wikimedia Apps FAQs, so this is really helpful. Pineapple Storage (talk) 12:32, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I've been puzzled by those statistics for a while. The page views seem to jump around wildly (I've had a 6-figure number followed half a hour later by 4-figure one, for example). I can say, though, that reverting one of my own edits can make the "quality" go down, as can being caught in a rollback that removes earlier vandalism. I feel the app statistics are pretty meaningless without any indication of how they're calculated. Musiconeologist (talk) 22:23, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Musiconeologist Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's been confused by this! Those details are useful to know, thank you. I agree, it would be helpful to have access to a bit more information about how these figures are calculated! Pineapple Storage (talk) 12:35, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

5 May 2025

'Publish' on pressing return key

Section Publish' on pressing return key' not found