I'm on a train so this will be brief... But let's say we do what you suggest, and it only raises 90% of what is needed. What then?
I've had to pare back WMUKs budget in the past few weeks to what the FDC granted. It's difficult enough to do on a smaller budget, I dread to think how the WMF would do it if they had to. A large organisation lucky enough to have a good income should use that income to plan ahead, rather than using fundraising as an artificial cap. You do raise good points on some subjects though - eg workers remuneration, which is generally poor in the US - but it's very difficult to discuss that via a public mailing list. On Dec 28, 2012 10:12 PM, "James Salsman" <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by multivariate analysis > > I mean as in the tests done May 16, September 20, and October 9 > reported at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/We_Need_A_Breakthrough > without adjusting the best performing pull-down delivery combined > banner/landing page from the beginning of this month (although I don't > think we will need the one that follows vertical scrolling. It may > produce 30% but that will be nothing if the remaining ~300 appeal > messages are tested, unless they don't fit the lognormal distribution > that they appear to.) > > > That would be complex, and could be a disaster... > > What are the possible failure modes? > > On Dec 28, 2012 9:46 PM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com> 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 > > 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 raised to decide whether salaries should be > > competitive with area tech firms, whether Fellowships should be > > jettisoned, how much personnel to put into the Education Program and > > engineering, and how much of a reserve to invest, preferably with low > > risk instruments which pay above the rate of inflation? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l