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19 February 2025

'Edits' section of mobile app

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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

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This feels like a bit of a silly question to have to ask, but I had a look in Preferences and couldn't find any relevant settings so I thought I'd ask here just to make sure. Is there a way to stop edits from automatically being published if you press the return key while typing in the edit summary box? I keep accidentally publishing edits when I was just trying to press the right square bracket key, so end up publishing incomplete edit summaries and having to make dummy edits to clarify. Is there any way to prevent this? (Other than just improving my fine motor skills, of course.) Thank you! :) Pineapple Storage (talk) 18:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Pineapple Storage, as far as I know there's no built-in way to do so. I had had the same problem and didn't search for solutions and so write the bit of JS that's at the top of User:Skynxnex/common.js. You're welcome to copy that to your own common.js and I saw there is a script listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List which does it as well: m:User:Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm. (With mine at least, you can still publish using only the keyboard by hitting tab from the edit summary box and then pressing "space" to activate the publish button.) Skynxnex (talk) 19:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

@Skynxnex This is perfect, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much! :) Pineapple Storage (talk) 07:52, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)