[Foundation-l] Isn't it getting to be time...

[Jeremy Tobacman]

Fundraising stats and figures are still up from the previous drives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia/Fundraising
Can anyone lend me a hand with the formatting of the raw data?  If so, I can
extend the figures to cover the last few months and provide frequent updates
during any new drives.

On 5/25/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with Ant (if that is what she meant) that the "personal appeal"
> should probably show up for anonymous users on all wikis. It would be even
> nicer if that message would change regularly.
>

These sound like good ideas.  To me they also suggest a question:
How can we figure out what fundraising tactics are actually the most
effective?
I propose that we run some "randomized evaluations," eg, by randomly varying
the fundraising appeal that gets served to some visitors to the site.  The
randomization could be done based on the time of the page request, the IP,
or something else.  Then we could compare the contributions made by people
who received different appeals, and subsequently focus on the ones that
worked best.

Jeremy