On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
First off its nice to see technical ieg's being proposed.
How do you plan to gelocate logged in users. Logged in user's ips are considered sensitive and your tool will not have access to them to do geo ip stuff on. You could maybe try and process user pages but that sounds difficult.
-bawolff
*We have tried to address the privacy issues in obtaining IPs herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Mapping_History:_Revision_History_Visualizer_and_Improvement_Suggester_using_Geo-Spatial_Technologies#Addressing_privacy_concerns. 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. If the tool is deployed as a MediaWiki gadget, we guess it will be installed on the server where the MediaWiki is hosted. Will there still be privacy issues in obtaining the IPs? In the standalone case where the tool will be used as an independent application, is there any way of obtaining the IPs without violating the privacy terms?*
Thanks,