On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>...
> We do have a graph of total hourly edits on enwiki across mainspaces here:
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_edits_api - it's trivial to
bin
> by day and filter to the main namespace only, I
Dario,
Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to
and after the visual editor roll-out?
It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated
with those statistics.
For example, why are you not providing a daily version of the hourly
graph at http://ee-d
As much as I complain about the fundraising team's continued neglect
of the as yet unmeasured potential of the majority of the
volunteer-submitted banner messaging ideas, I thought it would be nice
to show the results of their latest experiment:
http://i.imgur.com/gDBvNSt.png
Note that the experi
Why not make the visual editor the default with opt-out for 5% of
newly registered editors and anonymous IP page loads, and opt-in for
everyone else until there is evidence that it is not decreasing the
number of edits?
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Erik Möller wrote:
>...
> we need to collectively figure out what a discoverable,
> intuitive user experience should look like We're not
> going to solve these challenges if we lock away VisualEditor...
Erik, I don't understand. Could you please explain how making the
visual editor opt-in only
Oliver Keyes wrote:
>
> "active editors" == "editors with > [5/10/depending on standard] edits a
> month". It's pretty impossible, at our end, for us to identify one person
> between multiple IPs or one person between multiple IPs.
Why can't you use behavioral and expertise characteristics to meas
Nathan wrote:
>...
> Because they are measuring different things? The first refers
> to newly registered editors, which the second (judging by
> your summary) does not.
You are absolutely right. This gives us a silver lining insight that about
80% of anonymous IP editors have the editing experienc
Robert Rohde wrote:
>...
> early evidence that VE makes new users less likely to edit [2][3]
>...
> [2]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:VisualEditor%27s_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/Results
> [3]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&oldid=565
Luis Villa wrote:
>...
> we'll continue to look out for opportunities that make sense
> ourselves, and of course the community should always feel
> able and empowered to start things as well
The Foundation uses Google Drive/Docs internally. And extensively so,
right? Why don't you publish a re
In the last week, the current fundraising test has stabilized at about
$100,000 per day from showing the latest banners one time (per cookie)
to 5% of logged out enwiki readers. It was falling from larger amounts
during July 1st-10th, but at that time the banner was being offered to
5% of all page
Gayle,
Page 26 of the 2013-4 Annual Plan says that you have "optimized Wikimedia's
value proposition [with] reasonable compensation near the mid-point of the
tech sector".
How much of a change to previous compensation scales pegged to the
nonprofit sector does that represent in percentage terms?
Luis Villa wrote:
>...
> I'll probably post some more details on the talk page in the next
> day or two, but suffice to say that we continue to listen for options
> that are aligned with our values and likely to have an impact on
> the discussion.
Luis, could you please help us understand the spec
Do others feel that the "letter to US Congress" text at
https://optin.stopwatching.us/ (for which there does not seem to be a
direct URL, sorry) is appropriately worded?
I am far more impressed by the text at http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa/
which Jan Engelmann suggested on the Advocacy Advisors lis
Federico Leva wrote:
>...
> WMF will log the same (partial) data, but for 100 % of visits rather than
> 1/1000.
How much more will that cause the Foundation to spend on processing
subpoenas from law enforcement agencies? Will those agencies be
charged for the time and organizational overhead of t
r new hires, based on an
interpretation of Dan Pink's work which he and the secondary literature
both firmly reject.
Perhaps the elections and ED replacement will provide leadership who care
more about the evidence than suffering through having to admit that they've
been misguided.
On F
If we transcoded the stoplist would we still trigger censorship in China?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions/Archive_20#Mentioning_Wikipedia_on_Chinese_Skype_triggers_surveillance
All centralized authorities engage in misguided attempts to impose co
Where is the draft Annual Plan referred to at 1:02 of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCEj5AOrFA ?
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Mathias Damour wrote:
> The only sad thing is that it won't be launched in other languages
There is a longstanding proposal to create simple language Wikipedias
in languages other than English and France, but it remains to be seen
whether it is compatible with the current narrowing focus austerit
Kul Wadhwa wrote:
> Microsoft with other partners has also been working on bringing broadband
> to Kenya (and ultimately other African countries) via white spaces
> However, every party has their own agenda so hopefully competition lowers
> prices and gives people more choices. And having many
paid your people more and took my advice about statistics more often,
i.e., on using multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing.
In any case, I hope you are well. Please visit the interstellar
sleeper ship prototypes in the Lagrange Point region in Second Life
when you get the time.
Best regar
Marc Pelletier wrote:
>
> On 04/13/2013 07:25 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>> In short, the CFAA amendments alone would likely cost readers, editors,
>> and the Foundation more than 500 times as much as SOPA or PIPA could
>> have cost, under what I believe is a very reaso
SOPA or PIPA could
have cost, under what I believe is a very reasonable set of
assumptions.
If Sue or Garfield share your opinion that the question is
unanswerable, please let me know right away. Thanks again.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
On Apr 13, 2013, at 5:03 PM, James Salsman wrote:
&
Hi Garfield,
Would you please find out how much the CFAA and CALEA amendements
would be expected to cost readers, editors, and the Foundation
compared to what SOPA or PIPA would have cost if they had passed, and
let the wikimedia-l and advocacy advisors lists know?
Best regards,
James Salsman
geni wrote:
> On 30 March 2013 20:57, James Salsman wrote:
>>...
>>
>> (A) Should the Foundation devote banner space on project home pages to
>> CISPA advocacy?[3][4]
>>
>> (B) Should the Foundation devote banner space on project home pages to
>
tion, how bad would
poverty in developed countries have to become before it would be
appropriate for the Foundation to advocate on the issue? Is it already
appropriate? Would it only be appropriate if the proportion of editors
leaving the project due to personal poverty was increasing? Would it never
be
Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
>... I do want to make sure you (and everyone else) realise that there is no
>FACT like the one that you mention.
>
> "fact that the
>> Foundation's policy of paying below market salary discriminates
>> against potential hires with large expenses such as kids in college
I'd like to know more about the non-disparagement clause which
multiple people have stated that the Foundation's NDA includes. In
particular, does it forbid employees from discussing the fact that the
Foundation's policy of paying below market salary discriminates
against potential hires with large
Matt Walker wrote:
>...
> If you'd like I can provide a dump of the aggregated data
I saved a copy of the graph, and would much rather see the results of
this year's testing first.
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Where are the results of the current fundraiser testing?
And why has 2012 been deleted from
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics ?
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This looks pretty substantial:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf
"The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs
each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of
research and development expenditures to
ssues (as you have been
> doing over the past months… which is fair enough to some degree?)
>
> (and to be fair: at this point, with all the experience I have within the
> movement I would want to see most of these decisions researched before
> committing to a point of view)
&g
. What is your experience with editing or otherwise supporting
Foundation projects?
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>... The person we find this time will also be through our community
> and advisor networks
Will there be an opportunity for the community to pose questions to
finalists, the answers to which the Board might be able to evaluate in
making a final decision?
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Andy Mabett wrote:
>
> People could use AudioBoo, for example, if it had a Flickr-like way
> for uploaders to open-license a recoding. I'ive reached out to them
> suggesting that, with no luck yet.
The open source solution for voice recording with the largest
cross-browser and cross-platform suppo
y.com in a way which is far more anonymous than
the detailed demographics in the Ascent Advisor survey allowed. Since
it's only 25 minutes to office hours I better send this now and send
more information on how to do that later.
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Philippe Beaudette wrote, in response to:
>>...
>> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Reporter_Reimbursement_Program
>...
> I'm not sure that link makes the point you wish to make, James.
> For instance, you note that it has NO supporting signups?
Per http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca
MZMcBride wrote:
>...
> Given the mention of global citizen journalists in the blog post, I was a
> little surprised to not see a mention of Wikinews. Some collaboration
> between the Wikinewsies and the Global Voices folks might be good to
> explore. (I'll admit that I'm still somewhat trying to w
Jay Walsh wrote:
>...
> Re a blog post - yes, we're working on something now for the Wikimedia
> blog
Please consider including summaries of the following:
http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/post/40372208044/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of-aaron
http://unhandled.com/2013/01
Aaron explained how he originally measured Wikipedia contributions:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/swartz2006 -- which is
only linked through the bibliography he kept up on the topic
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/ which is linked at the
end of the main essay. Less t
Pine wrote:
>...
> I think Erik addressed your question about pay in a way that is very
> reasonable and I would ask you to re-read his comments
Thank you very much for asking me to do this. I overlooked the video
mentioned in Erik's comments and I see now that it may be the root of
the problems w
> We do know that this year the decay of fundraising from day to day was
> steeper than in past years, confirming that we were eating into out
> existing donor pool faster than before.
On the contrary, December 3rd was a stronger day than December 2nd,
with a much smaller maximum donation. All pre
Again, I am not suggesting canceling anyone's health insurance or
replacing it with increased salary. I am only trying to say that in
the case of when a parent or sibling faces catastrophic medical
expenses in the U.S., just over two years of the difference between
typical junior software engineer
Michael Snow wrote:
>
>... You think that having people mortgage their future and simply
> giving them more cash, which they don't ultimately enjoy other
> than to pay loans at distressed interest rates, is a greater benefit
> to them than providing the best insurance coverage we can offer?
No, I
Michael Snow wrote:
>... Paying market rate salaries is not what
> protects employees from being overwhelmed by medical expenses.
> The type of long-term or catastrophic medical event that generates
> a situation like this can outstrip even the most generous salary.
> What's actually relevant is th
n how popular the SOPA/PIPA
action was, do we have any reason to believe than editors and the
public would not overwhelmingly support such an action in support of
income equality? I intend to find out.
>... it would be irresponsible of us to try to keep up with the
> average Tech company, a
> The April fundraiser is on translated messages IIRC.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what this means. Where are plans for the
April fundraiser being discussed?
> No sane person can be expected to be put in a holding pattern
> for three months before an organizations STARTS to decide what
> intern
r-to-year, but I have
no ideas about how to account for that other than to do a multivariate
test shortly before beginning fundraising in earnest.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Matthew Walker wrote:
> James,
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:11 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>>
>&g
That would be complex, and could be a disaster...
What are the possible failure modes?
On Dec 28, 2012 9:46 PM, "James Salsman" wrote:
>
> How about for the April fundraiser, instead of setting a dollar value
> goal, we agree to use multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing to
How about for the April fundraiser, instead of setting a dollar value
goal, we agree to use multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing to
optimize the messaging from volunteer submissions in advance, then run
the whole thing for a fixed time frame, say three weeks, and then use
the actual amount
at Garfield's request, all reserve investments were
expected to perform below the rate of inflation when they were
purchased.
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On Thu Dec 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Zack Exley wrote:
>>
>>> "Maximizing" for us means raising our budget
>>> with as little negative impact
Another thing I want to point out, because I just noticed it. The
recent years' yields on bond funds has been slightly higher than
equity (stock) mutual funds, but with only a very small fraction of
the volatility:
http://news.morningstar.com/fundReturns/FundReturns.html?category=$FOCA$HY
I'm not
> Reviewing the log from those office hours, it appears Garfield did not
> "accept and speak highly of the suggestion", he merely said he would
> look into the possibility.
Well I'm glad someone is sanity-checking me, but the statement "We get
some of best ideas from the community" occurred after
sit, which were
then and still paying about four times as much interest. It is unclear
from the auditors' statements whether you accomplished this. Did you?
Sincerely,
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foundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles
Has the Board deliberated or voted on any resolution which is
compatible with the meaning you suggest?
> (and as much positive impact as possible!).
Given the answers to the questions above, how would you characterize
your impac
> Your posts are assuming a ridiculous degree of bad faith, where you
> you start from your own confusion and extrapolate downwards
"we've stopped fundraising this year" -- December 21
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fundraising_2012&diff=4885494&oldid=4884949
"we're hoping t
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>... As Zack noted earlier this month, banners are down until the end-of-year
> push. This has not changed. "From December 26 to Dec 31 we'll begin
> showing banners again to everyone for a final push to the year end goal."
That's a huge r
e Foundation leadership will address all of them swiftly.
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e opinions of the few members of the community who found that page
in time to comment.
For that reason I will be recommending specific community initiatives
during next year's Board elections.
Best regards,
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nnual Plan
such as the Fellows program can be put to a question of the community
with sufficient time for thorough consultation.
Please let me know your and the trustees' decision on this matter.
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[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Board_deliberations
[2]
h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Employment_growth_by_top_tax_rate.jpg
or
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Yz3W7LVnwne79wiwxdqKiRuFRAyQX-JXIAbAeuWuVXk/edit#slide=id.p10
?
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> I forgot that you are not able to edit Meta.
Because I was accused of violating the "research policy" by a staff
member who admitted some months later that there was no research
policy.
> I will migrate the relevant
> parts of the discussion here to the wiki, since a wiki is a useful place to
>
istical data until these issues are resolved.
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James Salsman
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the current campaign.
I most certainly am not. I see no evidence other than to conclude that
if the Board declines to hold the leadership accountable for this,
then they need to be replaced by the community.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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SJ,
Thank you for your reply:
> Fundraising targets have been set to match our projected needs for the
> year, for the past few years.
Does the very recent abandonment of several aspects of the Strategic
Plan, after the July 2012-3 Annual Plan goal was set at $46.1 million,
which itself was subs
> Costs don't scale linearly with pageviews. Nor do donations,
> especially when you consider that much of that growth in pageviews now
> comes from the 'Global South' (where people generally have less
> disposable income to donate) and from mobile devices (which we don't
> really fundraise on, alt
> How do you see the fiduciary responsibilities of the board playing into
> fundraising targets?
The employees of the board share their fiduciary responsibilities.
> Are you suggesting the Board has a duty to raise as
> much money as possible?
No. When actual fundraising far exceeded expectation
exponential rate they have
been over the past several years, is compatible with the fiduciary
duty of the Board and employees? Would you please request comment
concerning whether the community has confidence in this deliberate
slow-down? Thank you.
Best regards,
James Salsman
[1]
http://meta.wiki
Zack,
Thanks very much for helping me understand this.
> We can only do big multivariate tests for banner click rates.
The multivariate tests you ran in May and October list total
donations. What am I missing?
> For example, the new banners have about 30% the click rate of the old ones,
> but t
.
Do you still intend to test the untried volunteer-submitted messages
with multivariate analysis? If so, when? Thank you.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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Apparently I am moderated on wikimedia-sf.
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Again, I'm not going to go into detail about how I arrived at the 18%
figure for enwiki admins under the poverty line until the accusation
that I violated the Privacy Policy is withdrawn or my questions about
it are addressed. I am confident that it's accurate within a few
percent. Instead of criti
ators had returned to active status, having made more than 50
edits each after having gone at least six months without editing.
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The Funds Dissemination Committee was originally proposed by Sue to
the board with explicit support for both groups and individuals,[1]
but at some point after, all mention of individual editors was
removed.[2]
Could someone please say whether this was the decision of the board,
someone else's dec
> the biggest problem with editor retention at the moment is the
> second edit.
True. The ratio of new users over the past month with one or two edits
to those with three or more would make a great new metric. I hope it
shows up on the report card.
Thanks to Jonathan Morgan for investigating addi
> Why when we talk about "editor engagement" we think exclusively about new
> editors? How about retaining people, who already made Wikipedia (= the
> product) and keep maintaining it?
Retention of people who have made dozens of edits is about the same as
it's ever been. Retention of people who'v
> * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
> specialized reports and analytics
Erik, are any new metrics being added to support the Halfaker
recommendations to "build tools that aid in identifying and supporting
desirable newcomers" from
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~half
>... We are not a general educational non-profit
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally.
How is it possible
>> If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them
>> rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different
>> solutions, without any politics or drama.
>>
>> That said, if people want to filter Wikipedia, a client-side solution
>> rather than a filte
I also want to say something good. I think the fact that the
fundraising team is using multivariate analysis instead of simple A/B
testing now is beyond good, it's just spectacular. A/B testing was
excruciatingly slow, and this is a huge advance. I hope it means that
all the banner text suggesti
claimed that I did not discuss the
Inactive Administrators Survey with them before it was distributed. In
fact, I did in both cases.
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Someone is willing to pay $210K for the .wiki TLD? The Foundation
could have had it for $120,000 in 2009, per Rod Beckstrom's quote. I
did an analysis showing it would have probably have been worth it then
in amount of time an extreme compact URL would have saved typing. It
turned out that users'
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