Every time we've run an election of any kind with emails, to the best of my
knowledge, the email has caused a huge jump in participation. This time,
sending the email led to an additional 5000 votes overnight, which more than
doubled the total vote count. I don't have the numbers to hand, but we saw a
similar email-bump in the last board election.
So if the goal is lots of participation, then I think email is warranted.
But we just need to iterate and get better at it... as Andrew is indeed
working on :)
-- phoebe
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Maybe we shouldn't e-mail every user every time there is a vote.
There has never been a run that didn't cause any problems and like
Andrew was saying elsewhere they know the system doesn't check for
global blocks and multible blocks.
So there will be a lot of false positives. And a lot of people will
get spam because they did create a account and did some edits...
People that think Wikimedia is sending spam will leave instead of
vote.
There is already a global site notice. This e-mails was't needed...
2011/8/19, Andrew Garrett <agarrett(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hi all,
I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are
eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past
mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks
who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't
apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've
requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem
with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong
language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember
that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2].
I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help
in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow
future mail to be better targetted.
Thanks a lot for your help,
—Andrew
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list
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Wikimedia Foundation
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