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
I tested it and the distance from the given co-ordinates from my actual location was around 15kms ( 9.3 miles) , but within the same city of Bangalore
Regards Tinu Cherian
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
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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
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Arun, Looks like both of us received the same co-ordinates from MaxMind :)
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Arun Ram arunram25@gmail.com wrote:
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
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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
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2010/8/10 Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com:
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.
The goal is to develop the capability for countrywide banners at minimum, and we're testing the database to see if we can target smaller regions as well. Yes, making the existence of language versions known is one possible use. :-)
Feel free to leave comments/questions on the talk page for the project holding page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Central_Notice_Phase2
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
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Did you put your results on the page? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting
2010/8/17 Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Did you put your results on the page? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting
Yes.
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