On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Site Admin <1924.hra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear David
This is yet another example of how Wikipedia is seriously broken
Here is a screenshot of a deliberate full screen advt being thrust on
the global south.
http://i.imgur.com/2J0FgAP.jpg
Our IT team has extensively engaged in tracking the A-B testing WMF is
doing.
Here are some raw findings
1. WMF seems able to access Google's data base API to target logged-in
Google
users for their ads text content and initial banner size.
2. Males get larger banners then females.
3. Persons in UK and India get a large percentage of full screen ads.
Something to do with
4. Multiple viewed pages get these advts. In other words they don't
stop / give up after you've clicked the "X" and said "no".
5. Logged in Wikipedian declared females {we had a tiny sample
size on this} got advts no larger than 25% screen size.
6. The more "males" refuse these advts by clicking the "X",
the larger the advt size on your next visit. In one case, an
especially persistent "no" sayer, the banner width was 8x his
actual screen width.
HRA1924
Did you also notice that suspected members of the Illuminati received no
banners, only discrete little counters measuring how much money had been
pocketed by the Bilderberg Group?
