Hello!

I've been working for the last few days on
https://github.com/Ironholds/WPDMZ, which currently generates raw data
on 'number of non-bot edits per country', and I'd like to run some
stats / make some graphs based on it. Since I'd like al l my
'research' to be completely repeatable, I'd love it if we can make the
'raw data' (edits per country) publicly available on labsdb. I have
most of the code written for it, *but* it needs anonymization.

The biggest de-anonymization threats involve identifying which editors
come from which countries, and can be executed in the following case:

An editor is the only person editing from a country in a project where
the country has low edit volume, and by a process of elimination /
counting edits from a public source (like recentchanges), the
individual editor can be connected to a particular country

I propose the following Anonymization scheme:

1. No data for projects with less than a threshold of total
*individual editors* in the time period for which the data is
released.
2. For countries that have less than a threshold % of 'individual
editors' in the time period, we just simply lump them in as 'other'.

This removes most anonymization attacks I can think of. Thoughts? I
can easily write up the code to generate these on a monthly basis and
puppetize those to make the data publicly available. I think not just
me, but lots of external researchers would benefit from such data.

Thanks!

--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog

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