Well keep in mind it's not just the total number of editors. The requirement would have to be that the number the editors in each independent geographic region would have to either be zero or above a threshold. Meaning if we did geo-analysis based on countries, any country with at least one editor would have to have at least $threhold editors for the page's data to be shown publicly. This is because even on an article with 300 editors, if only two of those editors are from Canada or something, then it would still be easy to identify those two editors.
But if such a restriction like I just mentioned was implemented, I don't think there would be any problems with the data, although the threshold value would have to be chosen very carefully, and I'm not sure the WMF would want to take such a risk (although I can't speak for the WMF since I'm just a volunteer).
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Basil George basilgeorge007@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 02/16/2013 01:50 PM, Basil George wrote:
*We have tried to address the privacy issues in obtaining IPs here<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_His...
. As we have mentioned, no personal information of individual editors
other
than their rough geographical locations (at state/country level) will
be
used and displayed.
Please see my detailed reply at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_Hi...
Bottom line, under the privacy policy this is only okay for logged out users, and logged in users who opt in.
Matt Flaschen
If there is no way of obtaining the IPs of registered users from history
page, then we propose a few changes to the project idea (talk< http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_His...
):* Support the visualizer app only to those pages having large number of edits so that cross-referencing users with geographical locations become difficult.* Use only those IPs which are publicly available (unregistered editor IPs & registered editor IPs who have chosen to make them public).Though these changes may dilute the overall project idea, we still consider the implementation of this project helpful for future geo-spatial research and development of Wikimedia projects. The source code of this project may help in the implementation of many other projects that may require rendering and analysis of information on maps etc.Thanks and regards,
-- Basil. http://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/~basil.george/ Chance favors the prepared mind. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l