Eric,

It seems to work with a 12 km diff. Meta page has been updated with the results.

regards Arun

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello all,

we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area).

To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided.

To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation

And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting

Thanks for any and all help,

Erik

Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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Eric,

Good tool.

Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide?

Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness about them. Sites like WordPress.com do this already.

Ravi

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello all,

we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area).

To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided.

To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation

And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting

Thanks for any and all help,

Erik

Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Hello,

I tested it from Delhi and the result was good. However from Gwalior, it puts me in Madras/Chennai. Not good at all: not the same city, not the same state, and not even the same language.

Regards,

Yann

2010/8/10 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:

Hello all,

we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular region (e.g. a city and surrounding area).

To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the quality of the information provided.

To help out, please visit: http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation

And then report your results at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting

Thanks for any and all help,

Erik

Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate