Hello Aaron,
I just discussed with you my issue and as proposed by
you, I send this e-mail in order to summarize once again what I am asking for:
I am producing a visualization (with Processing) about
data of the English Wikipedia. In particular, I want to produce a world map
that shows from which places people edit Wikipedia articles. I can get the
location of anonymous users by their IP-address, however, for privacy reasons,
I don’t get the IP-address of registered users (the API-query ‘list=checkuser’
requires special rights that I don’t have).
So, I would like to ask whether you can give me a set containing
all IP-addresses of registered users of the English Wikipedia. Important: I am
only interested in the IP-addresses - I DON’T need to know how many times registered
users edited with their IP-address and I DON’T need to know their usernames.
If you wish, I can ask my professor to send you a
confirmation e-mail that I am writing my Master Thesis about Wikipedia.
I am looking forward to your answer and thank you a
lot for your help!
Thomas Legler