Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-15 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, I tested it from Delhi and the result was good. However from Gwalior, it puts me in Madras/Chennai. Not good at all: not the same city, not the same state, and not even the same language. Regards, Yann 2010/8/10 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Hello all, we're experimenting with

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-11 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile On Wed Aug 11th, 2010 11:15 AM IST Ravishankar wrote: Eric, Good tool. Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide?

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-11 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile While all works well with fixed line broadband

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-11 Thread Shalabh
Does not work for me, have updated the wiki testing page. It showed me 163 km SE of my actual location. Shalabh On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi, Good idea.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-11 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
I'm in Mexico City and it's fairly accurate here (on fixed broadband and mobile), only a few kilometers off. However, most of Mexico's infrastructure is in Mexico City (it's 5 times larger than the next largest city). I will ping some people in Mexico in the other regions and see what they

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
I tested it and the distance from the given co-ordinates from my actual location was around 15kms ( 9.3 miles) , but within the same city of Bangalore Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-10 Thread Arun Ram
Eric, It seems to work with a 12 km diff. Meta page has been updated with the results. regards Arun On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Arun, Looks like both of us received the same co-ordinates from MaxMind :) Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Arun Ram arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, It seems to work with a 12 km diff. Meta page has been updated with the results. regards Arun On Tue, Aug 10,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

2010-08-10 Thread Ravishankar
Eric, Good tool. Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide? Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness