Depends on the ISP, and, moreover, it depends on the granularity of
information they provide. Most ADSL ISPs seem to enjoy churning IP
addresses every 24 hours (possibly small hours resets of their exchange
equipment). Many geo-attempts I've seem simply use ISP's registered
addresses (hence eveyone lived in Woking, at one point). Smart reading
of the traceroute will often give almost street level location but I
doubt many people do that. I know little about geo-targeting, but it
is something I need ot find out about, so any useful resoruces....
On 16/05/2011 14:52, Deryck Chan wrote:
Chris,
Currently geo-targeting is only accurate to country level (due to ISPs
randomly moving IPs around within a country - Magnus, is that
correct?), so the only surefire way of targeting all of Cambridge is
to scoop up all of the UK, unfortunately.
Deryck
On May 16, 2011 2:05 PM, "Chris Keating" <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com
<mailto:chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com>> wrote:
Can I suggest some rather tighter geotargeting
for that notice - at the
moment it appears to aim at every Wikipedian in a box with Belfast and
Calais as its opposite corners....
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Peel
<michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk
<mailto:michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2011, at 08:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
> > On 09/05/2011 11:05, I wrote:
> >> I have posted a page for the next Cambridge meetup:
> >>
> >>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/11
> >
> > A site notice for this event would be helpful.
>
> I've set up an en.wp geonotice for it (which appears at the top of
> watchlists). In general, the place to request these is at:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice
> and any admin can make them live, by editing the page at:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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