What about changing it every hour? Then you have sufficient randomness over time, and no flashy buttons.
-- eia 2009/7/21 Erik Moeller <[email protected]> > 2009/7/20 Liam Wyatt <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
