Hoi,
Ehm, the statistics that we have are compiled by Erik Zachte.. qualifying
our staff and implicitly Erik as lacking the experience is .... a bit off.
It is not only the Commons project but also the Usability Initiative and the
Strategy project that will rely largely on these numbers..
Having spend a considerable amount of time getting to grips with our
statistics I can tell you that the beauty of Erik's presentations is that
they help you approach them in different ways. As for instance the traffic
statistics change daily and consequently you see the order of the different
wikipedias in this chart in time.. but you have to get a feel for these
dynamics... One nice touch is that the article statistics are in the same
order. This gives a feel for the relation traffic and article numbers...
this is less obvious then I thought at first...
Anyway.. I am sure that with Erik involved in statistics for Commons, we
will get not only numbers but also a presentations that is thought
provoking.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/10/26 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
2009/10/26 Guillaume Paumier
<gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Yes, we tested the survey, but with a smaller
number of people, because
of the time constraints (the multimedia usability project really started
only 2 weeks ago, and the fundraising campaign is going to be the major
focus of sitenotices from next week to January). And the problem didn't
appear during the tests.
It would probably be better to take your time to do proper tests, even
if you have to wait until after the fundraiser. It is very difficult
to draw useful results from a poor survey and if you haven't done
enough testing to spot something as simple as that then you haven't
done enough testing to spot more serious problems. Who is your
statistician? As far as I can tell, nobody on staff has significant
training in statistics, so presumably you are using a consultancy
firm? Did they not tell you you needed to do more testing?
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