Eh, English. But that's what I meant, it would be very easy.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
| tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 February 2013 20:06, Tyler Romeo
<tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Keep in mind we already do log IP addresses (to
an extent, for CheckUser
and whatnot), so the issue isn't actually capturing information, it's the
use and display of that information, especially since such display would
be
public. Like Brian said, de-anonymizing such
information might not be
difficult, *especially* on articles that are edited by only a select
group
of users, e.g., most Wikipedia articles.
I'm assuming you've added an extra "not" there - for many
articles that
have a very small number of editors, it would be vanishingly easy to start
geolocating people, especially with a couple of cross references.
I'll throw in for the record that geolocation is really problematic for
countries with very limited numbers of IPs (which coincidentally are often
countries with censorious governments), and there are huge regions where IP
data cannot be considered at all accurate: for example, most of the Middle
East.
Risker/Anne
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