You are to be commended on your understanding of the technology and methodology.<div><br></div><div>Could you do some qualitative work to try and hone in on the motivations of your sample?</div><div><br></div><div>--Sam<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Laura Hale <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:laura@fanhistory.com">laura@fanhistory.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steven.walling@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.walling@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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HI Laura,<div><br></div><div>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 <i>very</i> narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia&#39;s privacy policy.</div>

<br></blockquote></div></div>I&#39;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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location</a> .  It just has to be accepted, when doing research like that, that the data set won&#39;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&#39;re looking for edits from a country like New Zealand, where they don&#39;t have a dedicated IP address range.<div>
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