Well keep in mind it's not just the total number of editors. The
requirement would have to be that the number the editors in each
independent geographic region would have to either be zero or above a
threshold. Meaning if we did geo-analysis based on countries, any country
with at least one editor would have to have at least $threhold editors for
the page's data to be shown publicly. This is because even on an article
with 300 editors, if only two of those editors are from Canada or
something, then it would still be easy to identify those two editors.
But if such a restriction like I just mentioned was implemented, I don't
think there would be any problems with the data, although the threshold
value would have to be chosen very carefully, and I'm not sure the WMF
would want to take such a risk (although I can't speak for the WMF since
I'm just a volunteer).
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Basil George <basilgeorge007(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 02/16/2013 01:50 PM, Basil George wrote:
*We have tried to address the privacy issues in
obtaining IPs
here<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_Hi…
>.
> As we have mentioned, no personal information of individual editors
other
> than their rough geographical locations (at
state/country level) will
be
used and
displayed.
Please see my detailed reply at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_H…
Bottom line, under the privacy policy this is only okay for logged out
users, and logged in users who opt in.
Matt Flaschen
If there is no way of obtaining the IPs of registered users from history
page,
then we propose a few changes to the project idea
(talk<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_Hi…
):* Support the visualizer app only to
those pages having large number of
edits so that cross-referencing users with geographical locations become
difficult.* Use only those IPs which are publicly available (unregistered
editor IPs & registered editor IPs who have chosen to make them
public).Though
these changes may dilute the overall project idea, we still consider the
implementation of this project helpful for future geo-spatial research and
development of Wikimedia projects. The source code of this project may help
in the implementation of many other projects that may require rendering and
analysis of information on maps etc.Thanks and regards,
--
Basil.
http://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/~basil.george/
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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