The view at 3200x1800 http://i.imgur.com/IY28Tmp.png
On 6 December 2014 at 17:59, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Why would you need an "IT team" to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code > for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a > detailed automatically-generated log of all changes to fundraising banners > and campaigns (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeLogs). > If you want anybody to believe your asinine conspiracy theories, you're > going to need to point to some code to prove it. > > Kaldari > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Site Admin <1924....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear David > > > > This is yet another example of how Wikipedia is seriously broken > > > > Here is a screenshot of a deliberate full screen advt being thrust on > > the global south. > > http://i.imgur.com/2J0FgAP.jpg > > > > Our IT team has extensively engaged in tracking the A-B testing WMF is > > doing. > > Here are some raw findings > > > > 1. WMF seems able to access Google's data base API to target logged-in > > Google > > users for their ads text content and initial banner size. > > > > 2. Males get larger banners then females. > > > > 3. Persons in UK and India get a large percentage of full screen ads. > > Something to do with > > > > 4. Multiple viewed pages get these advts. In other words they don't > > stop / give up after you've clicked the "X" and said "no". > > > > 5. Logged in Wikipedian declared females {we had a tiny sample > > size on this} got advts no larger than 25% screen size. > > > > 6. The more "males" refuse these advts by clicking the "X", > > the larger the advt size on your next visit. In one case, an > > especially persistent "no" sayer, the banner width was 8x his > > actual screen width. > > > > HRA1924 > > > > On 12/5/14, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just used a not-logged-in browser for once. Literally the whole page > > > was the ad. It was startlingly obnoxious. I'm sure you can get > > > startling click-through rates with an ad that appears to completely > > > replace the thing you actually went to the page for. > > > > > > - d > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Gender Gap" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to gender-gap+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
