Thanks Coenraad, Raymond! Raymond, yes, that was my initial thought but would 
be good to know whether it’s an error from Erik :) 

Best
Heather

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> On 23 Apr 2018, at 5:21 pm, Raymond Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Coenraad,
> 
> I suspect VPN usage is quite high in the Russian Federation. Is this not a
> case of VPN proxies routing through South Africa?
> 
> Raymond
> 
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 at 01:41, Coenraad Loubser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Heather
>> 
>> My first instinct is that it's an error in the geographic IP address
>> database. Erik, can you link me to or supply the GeoIP database used?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Heather Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I wanted to share a paper [1] (abstract below) that I co-wrote with
>> others
>>> which is a small part of the really interesting project that some of the
>>> folks on this list were involved with (the Wikipedia Primary School
>> Project
>>> [2]) in SA. Will hopefully be talking about this (and other Wikipedia
>> work)
>>> at Wikimania this year. Would love to hear any feedback you might have.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Heather.
>>> 
>>> [1] author's preprint here https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qn5xd and
>>> published version here
>>> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818760870
>>> 
>>> [2]
>>> 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_programme
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dr Heather Ford
>>> Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>,
>>> University of New South Wales
>>> w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/>
>> / t:
>>> @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
>>> Beyond notification: Filling gaps in peer production projects
>>> 
>>> In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like
>>> Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and
>> improve
>>> the completeness of the archive. We test a number of these strategies in
>> a
>>> project aimed at improving articles relating to South Africa’s primary
>>> school curriculum and find that many of the predominant strategies are
>>> insufficient for filling Wikipedia’s gaps. Notifications that alert users
>>> to the existence of gaps including incomplete or missing articles, in
>>> particular, are found to be ineffective at improving articles. Only
>> through
>>> the process of trust-building and the development of negotiated boundary
>>> objects, potential allies (institutional academics in this case) can be
>>> enrolled in the task of editing the encyclopaedia. Rather than a simple
>>> process of enrolment via notification, this project demonstrated the
>>> principles of negotiation required for engaging with new editor groups in
>>> the long-term project of filling Wikipedia’s gaps.
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