+1 to JM's request for putting together a plan to gather data. Moral and ethical questions aside, we don't know the value to OSM unless we test.
I believe larger sites do things like offer a different home page to different users - e.g. one with these links, and then one without - in an attempt to compare two concurrent data sets, but I'm not sure how feasible that approach would be. The timeframe for the test is another data point - did the Comms WG have any thoughts on how to long to run this test? 3 months? 6 months? - Jeff On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/01/2013 01:37, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > >> I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the >> Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized social >> services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any value... But >> that's just my worthless opinion [..] But first, can we agree that user >> behaviour data is the raw material ? >> > Data-driven research : 100% of subsequent posts in this thread have > indulged in bikeshedding about whether to place a Facetweet button on the > home page, while my remark was merely introductory to the main point of > feeding our discussion not with opinions but with facts mined from visitor > activity. > > Anyway... Can anyone from the CWG give us a peek into the analytical > tooling currently built into Openstreetmap's Web presence, what we can > expect from it, what the future holds and what contributions are most > welcome ? > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer
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