Hi, On 10 December 2012 22:59, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > * What has been attempted before? Did it work? Why (not)?
I won't be in the meeting but there's a (small) dataset that could be used for analyses of whether automated welcome messages work. I'm not planning to produce statistics myself but others can run the statistics that they see useful. We're sending automated welcome messages to users who's first node edit is within Poland and some two months ago after talking to Paul Norman I changed the logic to only send the message to ~75% of those users so that the other ~25% could be used for comparisons with a good probability that the receiving of the message is independent from other factors. Roughly all editing users with UIDs >= 813385 and not divisible by 4 were greeted and those divisible by 4 were not (note that the order of messages is based on the time of first edit, not on the UID). The sample is still small, we see about 4 new users a day on average. I maintain a simple python api to send OSM messages[1] and if it is decided that it would be good to start welcoming users in a different region with a specific message I can add that fairly easily if the rate of new users is below the rate of messages allowed by rails port. Cheers 1. https://github.com/balrog-kun/osm-scripts _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us