Pageviews by the same user directly following an exposure to the banner would give some idea of whether readers are being lost. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of AntiCompositeNumber Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:11 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads Pageviews isn't a good metric for this, because it isn't measuring the people who load a Wikipedia page, see an obnoxious banner, and then click away without reading the content. That's still a pageview and a reader lost. On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:17 AM Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > > It is slightly less repellent than some I have seen in the past, but in > general I concur. > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of MZMcBride > Sent: 11 December 2018 03:20 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads > > James Salsman wrote: > >For those of you who have not seen the mobile fundraising banner this > >year, and thus are uncertain of what all the fuss is about, here is an > >example: > > > >https://i.imgur.com/wL4Y5dl.png > > Hi. > > This type of advertising is noxious and unacceptable. It should be revised > or taken down as soon as possible. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
