In WLM 2019 and 2020 there was no diet set.
Romaine
Op do 12 aug. 2021 om 22:23 schreef Alexander Tsirlin <altsirlin(a)gmail.com
Dear Lodewijk,
In order to answer your question, it would be useful to have information
on which diet was eventually implemented during WLM-2019 and 2020. Do
you have any such data?
An information on the banner diet during WLE-2021 would be even more
useful because all countries with a large number of uploads showed a
significant reduction this year compared to 2020. While COVID-19 could
play some role here, I suspect that it was not the only culprit.
Sincerely,
Alexander
On 8/12/2021 9:53 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to collect some input on the WLM banners.
As background: the centralnotice banners are the most important way
that
we make newcomers aware of our competition, but
it is also the main way
many other efforts get attention. This is a scarce resource, that we
should use responsibly.
When we started Wiki Loves Monuments, the sitenotice was primarily
all-or-nothing, and the community was very much at ease with such an
important competition getting this attention. As time progressed, the
option to institute a "diet" was added. Unfortunately, the
documentation
of this is pretty poor, but it looks like this
basically constitutes of
a maximum number of times that a given device sees the banner within a
given span of time. Typically, this number is set at 5 (you only see a
banner 5 times), but there is an option to 'reset' that counter to show
the banner another 5 times, for example the next week. Some options I
would see as feasible (but more experienced sitenotice designers may
know more creative solutions) would include:
- Show this banner X times in total per device
- Show this banner X times per week per device
- Show this banner once per day
- Show this banner once per Y page views
etc
The community has also flagged over the past years that showing the
banner without limitation becomes harder to justify as the number of
campaigns increases.
Experience teaches us that the effect of a banner diminishes over the
number of times it is being shown to people. It may be a small cost to
us to determine a diet. For simplicity's sake, we should probably try
to
come up with one-size-fits-all with some possible
local exceptions if
special events happen (e.g. a national monument open day).
Now the question is: what is a reasonable and optimal diet to request?
This is a tricky balance to strike: what is still enough to almost
achieve optimal impact, but minimize the 'cost' in our readers'
attention? If people have not clicked on a banner the first five times,
will they click on it the sixth?
I invite all national organizers to share their insights here or on the
public discussion page. If we can come to a consensus of what we think
is a fair diet, then we're also more credible with our request for
these
essential resources. I have my own thoughts, and
I'm sure others on the
international team have them too. But first, I'd love to hear some more
thoughts. What diet would be fair and practical, if any?
Lodewijk
(former international coordination team)
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