[Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation

[Ravishankar]

Eric,

Good tool.

Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide?

Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional
language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links
to regional Wikipedias, it will greatly boost the awareness about them.
Sites like WordPress.com do this already.

Ravi

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of
> supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add
> functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular
> region (e.g. a city and surrounding area).
>
> To do so, we need to license a database that will allow us to look up
> a person's presumed location based on their IP address. Before we do
> so, we want to gather some reports from around the world about the
> quality of the information provided.
>
> To help out, please visit:
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/mylocation
>
> And then report your results at:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MaxMindCityTesting
>
> Thanks for any and all help,
>
> Erik
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