On 2013-02-16 2:30 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" <marc(a)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