Wikipedia talk:Geo-targeted Editors Participation/report

Wrong banner is wrong

I don't think this test can be used to assess any similar initiative; or rather, it only confirmed what we already knew on how not to make a banner, because it was already predicted that the results would not have been good, as the banner was extremely unclear:[1] «it's weird enough to send people to the account creation form, which 1) wrongly implies one must register to contribute, 2) hides the explanation page Wikipedia:Tambayan_Philippines/Get_started making everything most confusing». Users were directed to the account registration form without any idea of what they were doing.
Another banner was used (proposed?) later for fr.wiki in Canada[2]: that initiative was a more traditional edit drive/barn raising ("contribution month"), but I didn't see how the banner was. A more sensible evaluation for them is probably whether the banner made a difference on the completion of the edit drive tasks, rather than editor engagement/recruitment. I suggest to look to previous similar sitenotices and edit drives rather than "invent" new initiatives just to test new CentralNotice banners. --Nemo 08:37, 8 March 2014 (UTC) P.s.: I discovered this page from a link on wikimedia-l by Asaf; please move it to Meta and/or link it from more pages and categorise it appropriately.