Thanks Chad. I'm interested in some more
informations about that,
especially how does this relates to the Privacy policy.
Is the information stored anywhere? Is there any way to opt-out of
this? Is there another service used for this project (I'm thinking
Google Latitude, but there are others)?
From a privacy POV, it doesn't really affect
anything. It isn't
currently being stored anywhere, and is information that
could
accessed by other means. Every site you visit, including Wikimedia
sites, could determine this info without doing it via this method,
it's just easier for us to pull this way.
This isn't being used by any third-party tools, and is only currently
being used for donation banner information as far as I know. It is
being used to show more relevant banners to your area. There isn't any
way to explicitly opt-out, but you could block the domain, or block
the javascript that is being used. That said, there isn't anything to
gain by blocking this.
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane