Why would you need an "IT team" to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a detailed automatically-generated log of all changes to fundraising banners and campaigns (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeLogs). If you want anybody to believe your asinine conspiracy theories, you're going to need to point to some code to prove it.
Kaldari
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Site Admin 1924.hra@gmail.com wrote:
Dear David
This is yet another example of how Wikipedia is seriously broken
Here is a screenshot of a deliberate full screen advt being thrust on the global south. http://i.imgur.com/2J0FgAP.jpg
Our IT team has extensively engaged in tracking the A-B testing WMF is doing. Here are some raw findings
- WMF seems able to access Google's data base API to target logged-in
Google users for their ads text content and initial banner size.
Males get larger banners then females.
Persons in UK and India get a large percentage of full screen ads.
Something to do with
- Multiple viewed pages get these advts. In other words they don't
stop / give up after you've clicked the "X" and said "no".
- Logged in Wikipedian declared females {we had a tiny sample
size on this} got advts no larger than 25% screen size.
- The more "males" refuse these advts by clicking the "X",
the larger the advt size on your next visit. In one case, an especially persistent "no" sayer, the banner width was 8x his actual screen width.
HRA1924
On 12/5/14, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Just used a not-logged-in browser for once. Literally the whole page was the ad. It was startlingly obnoxious. I'm sure you can get startling click-through rates with an ad that appears to completely replace the thing you actually went to the page for.
- d
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The view at 3200x1800 http://i.imgur.com/IY28Tmp.png
On 6 December 2014 at 17:59, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Why would you need an "IT team" to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a detailed automatically-generated log of all changes to fundraising banners and campaigns (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeLogs). If you want anybody to believe your asinine conspiracy theories, you're going to need to point to some code to prove it.
Kaldari
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Site Admin 1924.hra@gmail.com wrote:
Dear David
This is yet another example of how Wikipedia is seriously broken
Here is a screenshot of a deliberate full screen advt being thrust on the global south. http://i.imgur.com/2J0FgAP.jpg
Our IT team has extensively engaged in tracking the A-B testing WMF is doing. Here are some raw findings
- WMF seems able to access Google's data base API to target logged-in
Google users for their ads text content and initial banner size.
Males get larger banners then females.
Persons in UK and India get a large percentage of full screen ads.
Something to do with
- Multiple viewed pages get these advts. In other words they don't
stop / give up after you've clicked the "X" and said "no".
- Logged in Wikipedian declared females {we had a tiny sample
size on this} got advts no larger than 25% screen size.
- The more "males" refuse these advts by clicking the "X",
the larger the advt size on your next visit. In one case, an especially persistent "no" sayer, the banner width was 8x his actual screen width.
HRA1924
On 12/5/14, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Just used a not-logged-in browser for once. Literally the whole page was the ad. It was startlingly obnoxious. I'm sure you can get startling click-through rates with an ad that appears to completely replace the thing you actually went to the page for.
- d
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On 14-12-06 04:44 AM, K. Peachey wrote:
The view at 3200x1800http://i.imgur.com/IY28Tmp.png
... yes? Your point is?
Clearly the banner was constructed to occupy the width of the window, and it's height will be proportional to that (taking into account font metrics).
I'm no fan of the current banners - if only because they place too much emphasis on money and not enough on other ways to contribute - but the current conspiracy theories have descended from hyperbole into complete discconect from reality theory.
-- Marc
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