On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30
days (December 2 to December 31, 2014).
That's certainly incorrect. https://frdata.wikimedia.org/ campaign-vs-amount.csv shows about 200 campaigns started in 2014, excluding sidebar and other "regular" stuff. A campaign can contain hundreds of banners. Some campaigns lasted few hours, most of them several days or weeks.
I am aware of that. I meant the December fundraiser during which the banners were shown continuously to all Wikipedia readers.
Because according tohttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013 –
"In 2012, we were able to shorten the fundraiser down to nine full days, the shortest fundraiser we've had."
As noted in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2012/Report , those numbers are meaningless comparisons. We've been waiting for the number of impressions (at a minimum) for 20 months now.
It's the same with the editor survey data:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012#L...
Literally years have passed, but the answer is always either silence, or "The data is not yet ready."
The Foundation talks the transparency talk, but walking the walk seems a different matter.
Pictures of puppies[1] are no substitute.