Every time we've run an election of any kind with emails, to the best of my knowledge, the email has caused a huge jump in participation. This time, sending the email led to an additional 5000 votes overnight, which more than doubled the total vote count. I don't have the numbers to hand, but we saw a similar email-bump in the last board election.
So if the goal is lots of participation, then I think email is warranted. But we just need to iterate and get better at it... as Andrew is indeed working on :) -- phoebe On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Huib Laurens <sterke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe we shouldn't e-mail every user every time there is a vote. > > There has never been a run that didn't cause any problems and like > Andrew was saying elsewhere they know the system doesn't check for > global blocks and multible blocks. > > So there will be a lot of false positives. And a lot of people will > get spam because they did create a account and did some edits... > People that think Wikimedia is sending spam will leave instead of > vote. > > There is already a global site notice. This e-mails was't needed... > > > 2011/8/19, Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org>: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are > > eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past > > mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks > > who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't > > apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've > > requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem > > with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong > > language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember > > that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2]. > > > > I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help > > in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow > > future mail to be better targetted. > > > > Thanks a lot for your help, > > > > —Andrew > > > > [1] > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives > > [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list > > > > -- > > Andrew Garrett > > Wikimedia Foundation > > agarr...@wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > -- > Verzonden vanaf mijn mobiele apparaat > > Kind regards, > > Huib Laurens > WickedWay.nl > > Webhosting the wicked way. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
