+1 to JM's -1's to my +1 comments ; ) On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote:
> On 01/09/2013 08:49 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > > +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. > Actually, moral and ethical problems must be defused preemptively - > especially within a project that upholds exemplary values. > > Data retention policy sounds awfully corporate, but such document is the > foundation for not unthinkingly drifting sooner and later into > behaviours that we would not have condoned in the first place. Is anyone > aware of such document somewhere around OSM ? > > Of particular importance is the anonymization of user data - an > essential step if we wish to provide useful datasets to a group larger > than a trusted core. > > > 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. > That is called behavioural targeting. It is rather more advanced than > what is usually needed to begin with and users don't like being aware > that a specially skewed content has been served to them. That said, as > an intermediary step, we might want to differentiate more strongly > between logged users, non-logged users with a specific cookie and new > arrivals. > > > 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? > We don't even know if they are aware of this thread... I'm cc:ing a few > of them in case they aren't. > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org j...@gwhat.org 206-676-2347 www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer
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