[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Geolocalization improvement proposal

[Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com]

Somehow this only replied to Nemo



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> From: Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com
> Date: July 23, 2012 12:27:56 PM CDT
> To: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geolocalization improvement proposal
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> On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:42 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com, 23/07/2012 14:28:
>>> I am unaware of what the shortcomings of the current system are and where any improvements would be felt. This makes it a bit hard to have a firm opinion of the trade-offs involved with changing the system. So what exactly are the problems people are having with the current geolocation system?
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>> As the page tries to prove, looks like the current system is completely unreliable and therefore useless for most geonotices in Italy and probably other places.
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> I think it would be useful to have a wider study of the accuracy of the current system. Privacy issues are always a concern.  I am not certain I could support gathering more exact information on users who are well-served by the current system. It would be more supportable, I think, if there were a way to turn on the browser-based system only for those who are in areas that are known to be poorly served by the current system. Or if you were to ask those who geolocate to known ambiguous areas to opt-in to browser-based geolocation. There is obviously a benefit for some people, but a cost to everyone if we were to switch wholesale. Further study to determine exactly how widespread and how significant the benefit would be is something that I think might be useful.
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> Birgitte SB