[OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

[Jeff Meyer]

+1 to JM's -1's to my +1 comments ; )

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at 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.
>
>


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