You are to be commended on your understanding of the technology and
methodology.
Could you do some qualitative work to try and hone in on the motivations of
your sample?
--Sam
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
HI Laura,
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 *very
* narrow set of purposes as part of Wikimedia's privacy policy.
I'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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_location . It just
has to be accepted, when doing research like that, that the data set won'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're looking for edits from a country like New Zealand, where they don't
have a dedicated IP address range.
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