[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Brian]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi,
> Sorry but it is not obvious to me ... Given that Jimmy indicated that it
> is
> just a first time to test the waters, it is already obvious that it is not
> a
> "scientific" method. So I do not understand nor agree with your point.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM


I'm not sure if you've read this entire thread or are aware of the
discussion of polling that has occurred so far. It would be much better to
simply put the poll up on WMF properties.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

> A survey on Special:Search asking readers various questions about their
> thoughts, feelings and opinions regarding putting adverts on that page could
> help to clarify this issue. It would need to be carefully designed and well
> controlled, but it can be done in an unbiased and statistically sound
> manner. With hundreds of millions of page views a month, we could afford to
> do iterations of the survey until all parties are satisfied that it is fair,
> and then discuss the results.
>
> We would also need to anonymously survey active Wikipedia editors
> separately. Their opinions matter enormously.
>
> Folks seem generally agreeable to an objective, dispassionate analysis. A
> data driven approach is the best way.