[Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

[effe iets anders]

What about changing it every hour? Then you have sufficient randomness over
time, and no flashy buttons.

-- eia

2009/7/21 Erik Moeller <erik op wikimedia.org>

> 2009/7/20 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt op gmail.com>:
> > Rotating them would seem like a more viable solution than randomised - We
> > don't want the situation where every new page in WP someone reads there
> is a
> > new/different coloured donation button where last week there was none at
> all
> > - to go from nothing to that would be almost as bad as a flashing "donate
> > here, now!" banner.
>
> Indeed, that's the reasoning behind the proposed approach. We don't
> want it to typically be changing constantly for an individual user.
> Yes, a sequential run does introduce various problematic biases.
>
> An IP-address based hack could work, but would need to take into
> account dynamic IP addresses and such, without introducing strange new
> biases of its own. We'll discuss a bit further - good ideas /
> algorithms welcome. :-)
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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