On 2013-02-16 2:30 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 02/16/2013 01:24 PM, Brian Wolff wrote:
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.
Just a random thought to put out there: wouldn't it be possible to
create an anonymised dataset for research purposes? That would seriously reduce the amount of sensitivity and, if restricted to fully vetted research purposes, wouldn't be a significant disclosure of private information.
Just thinking out loud, here.
-- Coren / Marc
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I imagine that it would be difficult to anonoymise that properly and still have enough data to present something interesting ( however im not particularly versed in data analytics so maybe it is possible)
The original poster (assuming I understood correctly) wanted to make per page maps of where people edited from. Well there are certainly hot button topics that have a very very active edit history, the majority of articles have only a small number of editors. If you start cross referencing user contribs with geo history maps im sure one would be able to find out who is where.
-bawolff