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