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.
>
>
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