On 9/3/10 5:48 PM, James Salsman wrote:
Ryan Kaldari wrote:
... There's definitely a lot of work that we need help with, so any assistance is appreciated!
What can I help with to prepare for experimental measurements? Do you already have a way to collect arbitrary radio button and checkmark form responses from your PayPal donations? What format do those get loged in? I would love to write an R script for doing the regression.
Our donation analytics is very basic at the moment, but we're currently in the process of hooking up Open Web Analytics (http://www.openwebanalytics.com/) which should be a huge improvement. We will be posting lots of stats on meta and Foundation wiki during the fundraiser, so it would be awesome if you wanted to do some custom analysis with R. There are already some basic stats up at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionStatistics http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionTrackingStatistics http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testing/Stats
To answer your question, we do currently have ways of tracking arbitrary form input from the contribution process. This is how we track the donor comments for example. The code that handles all of that is managed by Arthur Richards, so he's a better person to ask about it.
Do you think this sort of thing would work better with radio buttons like the Red Cross uses, or a set of checkmarks with language specifying that the funds would be earmarked in equal proportions between all the checked options -- or is that another independent variable which should be tested?
Have you looked in to http://www.wepay.com? They are supposed to be offering a lower overhead rate than PayPal. I know you have an account with moneybookers.com -- have you asked them all for a better deal from each of them to get some competition between them going?
These are probably questions that would be better to ask on meta, so that you can get feedback from a broader group of people. As far as I know, we haven't looked into WePay.
Ryan Kaldari