On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 3/23/2014 12:47 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> >>> listing higher ticket prices is a major deterrent to attending. >> >> Worth exploring with data: what inspires or deters attendance. That >> may be affected by all of: the various prices listed, the difference >> between the high and low prices listed, presentation of other options, >> banner text used, &c. > > Okay, but we should look for existing knowledge and research related to the > subject to begin with. Answers for Wikimania ticket pricing are not as > straightforward to determine by A/B testing as fundraising approaches. The > population involved is a much smaller sample, motivating factors may be more > diverse, and the impact on the test subjects perhaps a little too personal > for that to be appropriate.
Very true. Worth exploring with research, and gathering passive data on current behavior, for a start. (We do currently show the Wikimania banners to 100M+ readers, I believe, so we have a large sample at that level.) SJ _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
