Thanks, Peter. I do know that Ed based his code on a UK or EU version. As for the IP addresses, those are stored in the WP versioning - is the issue that it points out the location based on the IP? (Which anyone could look up, but this makes it more obvious.)
kc
On 7/11/14, 9:16 AM, Peter Kaminski wrote:
There are a few similar accounts for various countries; here's a list:
https://twitter.com/palnatoke/wikiedit/members
The subject also sparked a current thread on wikitech-l [1] about whether or not is appropriate to publish IP addresses for anonymous editors, because it enables this sort of partial de-anonymizing.
Pete
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077524.html
On 7/11/14, 09:05 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
There is a new service developed by Ed Summers (@edsu) that tweets edits made anonymously from the US Congress' IP range. The twitter handle is @congressedits -- and it is very interesting! Especially from the point of view of potential conflict of interest. But it also may give, over time, a picture of how Washington-related information gets updated in WP.
kc
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