On 2013-02-16 2:30 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/16/2013 01:24 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: >> >> How do you plan to gelocate logged in users. Logged in user's ips are >> considered sensitive and your tool will not have access to them to do geo >> ip stuff on. You could maybe try and process user pages but that sounds >> difficult. > > > Just a random thought to put out there: wouldn't it be possible to create an anonymised dataset for research purposes? That would seriously reduce the amount of sensitivity and, if restricted to fully vetted research purposes, wouldn't be a significant disclosure of private information. > > Just thinking out loud, here. > > -- Coren / Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I imagine that it would be difficult to anonoymise that properly and still have enough data to present something interesting ( however im not particularly versed in data analytics so maybe it is possible) The original poster (assuming I understood correctly) wanted to make per page maps of where people edited from. Well there are certainly hot button topics that have a very very active edit history, the majority of articles have only a small number of editors. If you start cross referencing user contribs with geo history maps im sure one would be able to find out who is where. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
