You are to be commended on your understanding of the technology and methodology.
Could you do some qualitative work to try and hone in on the motivations of your sample? --Sam On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> HI Laura, >> >> There is no publicly-accessible tool that provides the IP address/location >> of logged in users of Wikimedia projects. The CheckUser extension can >> provide the IPs used by any user account, but it is only used for a *very >> * narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia's privacy policy. >> >> I'm just looking at IP address edits that are publicly available on > Wikipedia history pages. As for the location of logged in users, that is > easy enough to get from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location . It just > has to be accepted, when doing research like that, that the data set won't > be complete for all logged in users. And even for IP address edits, that > location is nominally nothing more than an educated guess... especially when > you're looking for edits from a country like New Zealand, where they don't > have a dedicated IP address range. > > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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