It would be interesting indeed to see where Wikipedians live, especially for English, Spanish, ... Wikipedias where we really have no clue where the contributors come from.
A suggestion: we might add a drop down box to the user preferences screen where a user can >>optionally<< select his/her country of residence. I would really like to add info about this to the stats pages. But better wait till we have a single signon, so that each user is counted only once.
Erik Zachte
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:38:53 +0200, Erik Zachte e.p.zachte@chello.nl wrote:
A suggestion: we might add a drop down box to the user preferences screen where a user can >>optionally<< select his/her country of residence. I would really like to add info about this to the stats pages. But better wait till we have a single signon, so that each user is counted only once.
And all kinds of other optional details. City would also be useful, for instance. Some users are averse to sharing any personal information about themselves; but others are happy to share a great deal of it. And some information, like the email address, can be hidden from other users by default.
+sj+
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:53:09 -0400, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:38:53 +0200, Erik Zachte e.p.zachte@chello.nl wrote:
A suggestion: we might add a drop down box to the user preferences screen where a user can >>optionally<< select his/her country of residence. I would really like to add info about this to the stats pages. But better wait till we have a single signon, so that each user is counted only once.
And all kinds of other optional details. City would also be useful, for instance. Some users are averse to sharing any personal information about themselves; but others are happy to share a great deal of it. And some information, like the email address, can be hidden from other users by default.
My only comment is that this should *only* be on a preferences page, and we should resist temptation to ask *anything* when setting up a new account. I think the ability to say "Yes, enter a username and password, and that really is it, no more questions" is a real selling point for people to set up accounts. Which, of course, makes them easier to relate to as users, and more likely to get hooked! ;)
Oh, and of course we'd have to promise not to use it for spam, even User_talk: spam (if you see what I mean).
Otherwise, nice idea. Would create a database version of all those endless pages on meta: and in the Wikipedia: namespace covering this kind of thing.
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