[Foundation-l] Re: Figures, and what made the fundraiser take off?

Tue Jan 24 23:32:54 UTC 2006

Many thanks for the ideas and the link.

Two follow-up questions:  Is there a way to extract the numerical traffic
data from Alexa?  Or, better yet, is there publicly-available data of page
requests made of the WMF servers?  Then perhaps I could analyze the fraction
of page requests (of regular pages and of fundraising-specific pages
including Jimbo's appeal) that resulted in donations.

And one question looking further ahead:  might it be possible to test out
different fundraising strategies systematically?  What information would we
need to collect in the future in order to figure out what works best?

Jeremy

2006/1/23, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
>
> Jeremy Tobacman wrote:
> > To see in more detail how the recent fund drive went, I started looking
> at
> > the raw data and put some figures together here:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tobacman/Stats/Fundraising
> > .  Comparing this most recent fundraiser to the two earlier fundraisers
> in
> > 2005, it seems very clear that *something* happened to make the week
> > following 12/28/2005 a very good one for the Foundation.  More
> specifically,
> > previous fundraisers had tended to fizzle, and this one seemed to be
> taking
> > a similar path until its New Year's fireworks.
> >
> >    How can we figure out what made this fundraiser take off?
> >
> > Maybe additional data, tests, or experiments could help in future
> planning--
> > It would be great if we could have the techniques in place for such
> > remarkable success from the very beginning of the next fundraiser.
> >
> > Jeremy
>
>
> Hiya,
>
> Very interesting !
> Another point of comparison that might be worth... Alexa's traffic
> during that time.
>
> http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=t&url=http://www.wikipedia.org#top
>
> More visitors ---> more donations ?
>
> Ant
>
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